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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.
K. Cheuk Chan, Harvey J. Amster
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 434-437
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26931
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Exact elementary functions for the value and first two lethargy derivatives of the collided neutron flux at source lethargy have been derived previously for a monoenergetic plane source in hydrogen, and the results have been used both to test calculational methods and to synthesize an elementary function for the entire spatially dependent slowing down distribution. In this Note, the exact elementary functions at source lethargy are generalized to allow: (a) any number and thicknesses of homogeneous slabs with faces parallel to the source plane, (b) each slab to be composed of any mixture of isotopes with arbitrary energy-dependent elastic scattering and absorption cross sections, and (c) any number of equally spaced cosine-weighted source planes.