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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. S. Yang, P. J. Finck, H. Khalil
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 1 | May 1992 | Pages 21-33
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23920
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A reconstruction method is developed for recovering pin burnup characteristics from fuel cycle calculations performed in hexagonal-z geometry using the nodal diffusion option of the DIF3D/REBUS-3 code system. Intranodal distributions of group fluxes, nuclide densities, power density, burnup, and fluence are efficiently computed using polynomial shapes constrained to satisfy nodal information. The accuracy of the method is tested by performing several fast reactor numerical benchmark calculations and by comparing predicted local burnups with values measured for experimental assemblies in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. The results indicate that the reconstruction methods are quite accurate yielding maximum errors in power and nuclide densities that are <2% for driver assemblies and typically <5% for blanket assemblies.