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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.
S. N. Cramer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 237-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27154
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The fictitious scattering radiation transport model, suitable for Monte Carlo applications in geometrically complex systems, has been extended for use in deep-penetration calculations by the development of an appropriate next-flight estimator. Mathematical derivations are given, and it is shown that the estimation scheme is actually a one-dimensional version of the general model. Sample problems are solved to illustrate the use of the next-flight estimator, its variance characteristics, and the time-saving features of the model. Other items discussed are coupling techniques with standard methods, systems with large cross sections, and inclusion of the fictitious scattering model in multigroup cross-section structure.