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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.
C. V. Smith, N. E. Scofield
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 1-7
Technical paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A28415
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper shows the results of a gamma-ray backscattering calculation using the moments method. Results are shown for the differential angular energy distribution of gamma-ray flux backscattered from semi-infinite media of aluminum and iron. A plane normal source of 0.66-MeV gamma rays from 137Cs is simulated in the calculation. A comparison is shown between the calculated albedo spectra and results from an experiment. The calculated albedo distributions were slightly higher in the multiple scattering peak area for angles greater than 130 deg; otherwise, the comparisons were very good. The slight discrepancies can be explained by the finite slab boundary effects from the experiment.
