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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.
J. B. Garg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 76-92
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27128
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High-resolution total neutron cross-section measurements in natural vanadium. manganese, and cobalt were made in the energy range up to a few hundred keV with the Columbia University Nevis neutron velocity spectrometer using a 200-m flight path and a nominal resolution of 0.5 ns/m. These cross-section data were analyzed with an R-matrix multilevel code, and the resonance parameters (Eλ, Γπ. S0, 〈D〉) were obtained. In addition, making use of the published thermal energy data, the parameters of the bound levels were determined. From these measurements the values of S0 up to 215-keV neutron energy for vanadium [ = 8.62 ± 2.45, = 8.79 ± 2.50, and = 8.7 ± 1.81; up to 200 keV for manganese [ = 3.10 ± 0.70, = 4.75 ± 1.10, and = 3.93 ± 0.651, and up to 80 keV for cobalt [ = 4.02 ± 0.96, = 2.94 ± 0.75. and = 3.48 ± 0.65 in units of 10−4 eV−1/2] have been obtained. The corresponding mean level spacings up to 215 keV for vanadium are = 8.7 ± 1.25 keV and = 8.33 ± 1.25 keV, up to 100 keV for manganese are = 3.85 ± 0.55 keV and = 4.00 ± 0.59 keV, and up to 80 keV for cobalt are = 2.29 ± 0.28 keV and = 2.67 ± 0.36 keV. The value of spin cut-off factor a is found to vary from 2.7 to 4 for these nuclei. These results do not show any J dependence on the strength function.