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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.
V. E. Fortov, B. Goel, C.-D. Munz, A. L. Ni, A. V. Shutov, O. Yu. Vorobiev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 169-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24181
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A Godunov scheme is proposed for the simulation of impact problems and detonations where nonstationary fronts and interfaces are tracked as boundaries of subregions that move in time. In each subregion and at each time step, a new grid is created by the use of boundary-fitted coordinates. The numerical method is based on a finite-volume approach in the space-time domain, and the fluxes are calculated using the solution of Riemann problems. Numerical results are shown for several impact and detonation problems, showing the efficiency of this approach.