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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.
M. P. Fricke, J. M. Neill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 4 | April 1973 | Pages 392-397
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26576
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The neutron spectrum and criticality of ZPR-3 Assembly 11 have been calculated using estimated cross sections for the mU(n, γn’) reaction. Inclusion of this reaction markedly improves agreement between the measured and calculated spectra, and it also decreases the calculated criticality by 0.62%. This change in criticality can be compensated for by lowering the 238U capture cross section from the ENDF/B-III values to those of a recent microscopic measurement. These and other ramifications of the (n,γn’) reaction in fast reactor assemblies are discussed.
