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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. Robert Sloan, Gene L. Woodruff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 1 | September 1974 | Pages 28-40
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23963
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Measurements of the spectra of delayed neutrons from the thermal fission of 235U are reported over the energy range 30 to 1500 keV. The resolution is sufficient to identify locations of peaks in the spectra. Spectra for three different count-irradiation cycles are reported with the shortest representing a near equilibrium spectrum for delayed neutrons from 235U. Comparisons with existing data show relatively good agreement to the spectral peaks. A correction for the shield of the detector is introduced and applied to the current and previous work with reasonable results. In general, the new spectra are softer than previously reported and show more detailed structure.