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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.
B. A. Worley, R. Q. Wright, F. G. Pin, W. V. Harper
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 2 | October 1986 | Pages 180-191
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A27452
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An application of an automated procedure called GRESS for adding derivative-taking capability to FORTRAN computer codes is presented. The efficiency and usefulness of GRESS for enhancing the point depletion and radioactive decay code ORIGEN2 are discussed. A new version of ORIGEN2 is now available that has the capability of calculating first derivatives and sensitivities of any variable in the code with respect to any other variable. The capabilities of the enhanced version, ORIGEN2G, are exemplified by its use in a sensitivity study of a high-level nuclear waste disposal problem. By using GRESS, the enhanced version ORIGEN2G was produced, tested, and verified in 2 man-months compared to an estimated 1 to 2 man-yr of effort to program a code with comparable capabilities.
