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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.
Alan E. Waltar, Andrew Padilla, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 418-451
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27381
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This paper reviews major computer code packages presently utilized or under active development in the U.S. for deterministic liquid-metal fast breeder reactor safety analysis. Although the review covers the very large accident domain from intact predisassembly geometry through radiological consequences, an attempt was made to categorize code systems according to the physical problems solved to provide a working orientation for those not intimately involved in the field. Mathematical and computational aspects were given particular focus in the hope of stimulating development of more efficient numerical approaches in those areas of greatest need.