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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.
R. R. Spencer, H. Beer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 390-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26900
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The neutron capture cross section of 59Co has been measured in the energy range from 6 to 200 keV using an 800-ℓ liquid-scintillator detector in conjunction with a pulsed 3-MV Van de Graaff generator as a neutron source. The excellent time resolution of the system, full width of 2.8 nsec at half maximum, permitted derivation of radiation widths for single s-wave resonances to 50-keV neutron energy. Average radiation widths of 0.564 ± 0.024 eVand 0.486 ± 0.016 eV were found for seven J = 3 resonances and ten J = 4 resonances, respectively. No significant correlation between and Γy was found for either spin state. The Maxwellian-averaged cross section for kT = 30 keV was found to be 38 mb over the region from 0.0253-eV to 200-keV neutron energy.