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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.
W. Knop, H. B. Stuhrmann, R. Wagner, M. Wenkow-EsSouni, J. Zhao, O. Schärpf, M. Krumpolc, K. H. Nierhaus, T. O. Niinikoski, A. Rijllart
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 4 | April 1992 | Pages 316-329
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23906
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Polarized neutron scattering from clusters of polarized proton spins in solid material provides a new contrast variation method. Frozen solutions of apoferritin and of the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes in a mixture of heavy water and deuterated glycerol have been studied at the conditions of dynamic nuclear spin polarization (H = 2.5 T, T < 1K, 4-mm microwave irradiation). The three basic scattering functions of contrast variation were derived by varying polarized neutron scattering with the polarization of target nuclei. They agree with results obtained from neutron scattering in H2O/D2O mixtures at room temperature. Furthermore, the proton spins appear to be polarized uniformly, at least to a structural resolution of 40 Å. This is an important prerequisite for the in situ structure determination of macromolecular labels in larger host particles.