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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.
Jim E. Morel, Alejandro Gonzalez-Aller, James S. Warsa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 168-178
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2654
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A lumped linear-discontinuous spatial finite element discretization of the Sn equations in r-z geometry on triangular meshes is derived and computationally tested. An asymptotic analysis indicates that the scheme preserves the thick diffusion limit and behaves well with unresolved boundary layers. Computational results are presented that indicate the scheme is second-order accurate in the transport regime and that confirm the main predictions of the asymptotic diffusion-limit analysis.