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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. Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 55-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27270
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Measured neutron emission spectra from 14-MeV neutron-induced reactions in a wide range of nuclei are analyzed by precompound nuclear model calculations. The nuclear model code parameters are adjusted using a least-squares fitting procedure to optimize the agreement between calculation and experiment, but the parameters are constrained to physically reasonable values. A single set of input nuclear constants produces calculated spectra that agree to within 30% of experimental values in over 70% of the cases.