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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
A. A. van Well
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 10-15
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23871
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A recently developed stacked neutron guide system, installed at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute in Delft, The Netherlands, is described. It comprises two 3-m-long stacks of curved narrow neutron guides. This system is designed to transmit thermal neutrons by means of total reflection and, at the same time, attenuate fast neutrons and gamma radiation strongly. Comparison of calculated and measured flux densities shows an excellent transmission of the thermal neutrons. The measured fast neutron and gamma radiation dose-equivalent rates are consistent with the design values.