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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.
Karmeshu, N. K. Bansal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 321-327
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26781
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The exact expressions for the first- and second-order moments of neutron density and the delayed-neutron precursor density are derived for a neutron multiplying system, with time-dependent stochastic perturbations in the reactivity and white noise source. The effect of finite correlation time of the reactivity on the stability of moments is discussed. For asymptotically long times, the moments are found to be stable. The exact expressions of the moments in the limiting case, when the reactivity correlation time becomes zero, are also derived. It is found that the expressions for this limiting case differ from the corresponding expressions of Williams.