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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.
Maria do Carmo Lopes, Jorge Molina Avila
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 113 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 217-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24490
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Thermal and epithermal neutron sensitivities are calculated for cobalt self-powered neutron detectors (SPNDs). Using a reformulation of the analytical model for the calculation of the electric charge produced per neutron captured, a multiple-collision treatment for the calculation of the neutron capture rate is introduced. The calculated values for thermal sensitivities are in excellent agreement with experimental results.,Taking neutron multiple scattering into account, significant differences are found in epithermal sensitivities of cobalt SPNDs with respect to the usual single-collision approximation. It is concluded that the prompt electric current produced in cobalt SPNDs is mainly determined by epithermal neutrons for 0 ratios >1.3.