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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. Rajagopalan, H. S. Pruys, A. Grütter, H. R. von Gunten, E. A. Hermes, R. Richmond, E. Rössler, A. Schmid, P. Wydler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 414-419
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26796
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The yields of 27 mass chains in the fission of 235U and the ratio of fast-neutron to thermal-neutron fission yields (the “R” value) of 21 mass chains in the fission of 239Pu induced by fast neutrons (median energy ∼180 keV) have been measured in the reactor PROTEUS. The yields were obtained by a comparison method using gamma-ray spectroscopy. The data show that, in agreement with other authors, yields in the peaks of the mass distribution do not change compared to thermal-neutron-induced fission.
