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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.
M. R. Dorr, J. F. Painter, S. T. Perkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 2 | October 1986 | Pages 157-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A27450
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A new algorithm for modeling charged-particle transport in a fully ionized plasma is presented. A standard multigroup discretization of the Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation is transport-corrected to implicitly include the anisotropic effects of both coulomb scattering and nuclear reactions. This allows the subsequent application of the Levermore flux-limited diffusion theory, which was originally developed for isotropic radiative transfer calculations. A finite differencing of the resulting spatial transport operator is constructed so as to yield centered and upwinded operators in the diffusion and free-streaming limits, respectively. The time integration is performed by the general purpose ordinary differential equation solver TORANAGA. This approach results in a highly vectorizable algorithm that has been implemented on the CRAY-1. Some numerical results are presented that compare this algorithm to the corresponding, but far more expensive, Monte Carlo calculations.