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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.
E. M. Gelbard, H. Henryson II
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 1 | September 1977 | Pages 124-131
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27083
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The authors propose that benchmark work in conventional neutronics be reorganized somewhat, so that key steps in the reactor design and analysis process be systematically benchmarked. Furthermore, they suggest that benchmark work in different areas be unified, and that new benchmark problems be developed for reactor safety and fusion power neutronics calculations.