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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.
Karl O. Ott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 452-464
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27382
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An approach for the description and evaluation of the uncertainties in the predicted consequences of fast breeder reactor accidents is outlined. All uncertainties are viewed as uncertainties of parameters, either of physical parameters or of quantities that appear in the parameterization of phenomenological models. By the incorporation of parameter uncertainties in the simulation of the accident progression, single accident-path scenarios assume the character of “accident spectra.” The progression of accident spectra is found by combining deterministically calculated accident-path results with the probability of the respective set of input parameters. The substantial method development needed for the implementation of the approach is discussed, and the status of the development is briefly reviewed. Typical results are presented for illustration purposes. The possible eventual significance of the approach is indicated.