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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.
Y. D. Harker, R. A. Anderl, G. K. Becker, L. G. Miller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 4 | April 1992 | Pages 355-368
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23909
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Neutron spectrum measurements are performed on the aluminum-oxide-filtered neutron beam at the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR). Two independent measurement techniques are used in the spectrum characterization: (a) foil activation spectrometry and (b) proton-recoil spectrometry. Activation foil assemblies are irradiated at the exit port of the beam facility. Dominant resonances in selected activation reactions are used to measure the epithermal neutron spectrum. The intermediate and fast energy ranges of the neutron spectrum are measured by threshold reactions and the 10B-filtered 235U fission reaction. Neutron spectral data are derived from the activation data by two approaches: (a) an analysis that yields neutron flux values at the energies of the dominant or primary resonances in the epithermal activation reactions and (b) an analysis that utilizes all the activation data simultaneously in a spectrum unfolding process using the FERRET data adjustment code. Hydrogen-filled proton-recoil proportional chambers are used at the beam port exit to acquire data of a higher energy resolution than that obtainable through foil activation techniques. These measurements are made to determine if structure in the aluminum scattering cross section would produce significant structure in the filtered spectrum in the fast neutron region.