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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. W. Meadows
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 360-363
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27315
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Measurement of the ratio of the fission cross sections of 239Pu and 242Pu to that of 235U is reported. The sources of neutrons were the 7Li(p,n)7Be and D(d, n)3 He reactions. The ratio of the masses of the samples was determined by low geometry alpha counting and from relative thermal fission rates. The results are compared with other measurements.
