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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.
A. A. Harms, E. A. Attia
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 310-317
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26745
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An exact infmite-series solution to the one-speed neutron transport equation in spherical geometry is presented. The analysis is based on a partial-range variant of the spherical harmonics formalism and admits arbitrary directional discontinuities in the vector flux. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the appearance of discontinuities in the flux associated with an absorbing sphere.
