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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.
Kuldip Singh, C. C. St. Pierre
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 4 | April 1973 | Pages 382-387
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26573
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Turbulent mixing rates between adjacent subchannels were obtained at 50 psia for annular flow of air-water mixtures in a simulated square-square rod bundle geometrical array using a tracer technique. The gap spacing was varied by a factor of 5. Mixing rates were found to be flow regime dependent, decreasing exponentially with subchannel mass flux and quality and increasing with gap spacing. Enhanced liquid interchange was measured in the low quality bubble flow regime and high quality annular flow regime. The results presented here are in qualitative agreement with data obtained by other investigators using steam-water at elevated pressures.