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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.
John H. Lienhard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 302-304
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26965
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A recently developed corresponding-states correlation of the maximum attainable liquid superheat provides an asymptote for liquid specific heats. The specific heat at any pressure approaches this asymptote in the same way as that at an arbitrary high-pressure reference, within a simple correction function. Accordingly, lower pressure data can be extrapolated accurately to within a few degrees of their own limiting superheat with the help of the correction function.