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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.
D. C. Barnes, J. U. Brackbill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 1 | September 1977 | Pages 18-32
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27073
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A numerical study of the equilibrium and stability properties of the Scyllac experiment at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is described. The formulation of the numerical method, which is an extension of the ICED-ALE method to magnetohydrodynamic flow in three dimensions, is given. The properties of the method are discussed, including low computational diffusion, local conservation, and implicit formulation in the time variable. Also discussed are the problems encountered in applying boundary conditions and computing equilibria. The results of numerical computations of equilibria indicate that the helical field amplitudes must be doubled from their design values to produce equilibrium in the Scyllac experiment. This is consistent with other theoretical and experimental results.