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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.
D. Schwalm
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 2 | October 1973 | Pages 267-274
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28195
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The variances of pulse fluctuations of a periodically pulsed fast reactor have been calculated. The characteristic parameters of SORA, the 1-MW pulsed fast reactor, under development by Euratom at Ispra, have been used as input data. As a result, the relative standard deviation was found to be independent of the duration of the power pulse and the pulse shape and inverse proportional to the square root of the operation power.
