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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.
Y. S. Horowitz, A. Dubi, and S. Mordechai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 4 | April 1976 | Pages 427-429
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26842
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We describe a new formulation of the Monte Carlo approach to particle transport problems by defining a direct point flux estimator that extracts information from “passage” points rather than “collision” points. The approach leads directly to the radically new concept of track rotation and provides a statistical framework in which it is possible to prove the validity of the track rotation concept in spherically symmetric configurations and the validity of the compensated track rotation concept in nonspherically symmetric configurations. The approach can lead to essentially infinite gains in efficiency over conventional analog Monte Carlo methods that cannot directly estimate the flux at a point.