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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.
Gilles Noguere, David Bernard, Cyrille De Saint Jean, Bertrand Iooss, Frank Gunsing, Katsuhei Kobayashi, Said F. Mughabghab, Peter Siegler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 1 | September 2008 | Pages 108-122
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE160-108
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A new method to produce covariance or dispersion matrices for the resonance parameters of neutron cross sections was developed. The technique uses resonance shape analysis in association with Monte Carlo treatment of the uncertainties. The method was implemented in the error propagation tool MCFIT. This program provides a user-friendly textual interface for the shape analysis code REFIT. It was designed to take into account the main sources of uncertainties involved in time-of-flight measurements. Its capability is illustrated with the simultaneous analysis of 237Np capture and transmission data. The covariance matrix obtained in this work was used to interpret oscillation measurements of 237Np samples carried out in the Minerve reactor located at Cadarache.