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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.
Yung-An Chao, Chang-An Suo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 2 | October 1984 | Pages 103-109
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A28394
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A two-dimensional, two-group albedo model is developed for replacement of a pressurized water reactor reflector. Spatially dependent albedos in the vicinity of an outward concaving corner of the core boundary are derived using the same formulation and technique developed by the authors for the theory of the interface flux nodal method. The model is mathematically simple and has been successfully tested for applications in both fine-mesh finite difference and coarse-mesh nodal calculations, for cases of a reflector with and without a shroud.