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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.
John M. Kallfelz, Lotfi A. Belblidia, Peter Grimm
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 2 | October 1995 | Pages 301-311
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A28566
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For certain reactivity insertion accidents, the fuel-temperature coefficient (FTC) determines the major component of the feedback reactivity, which limits the peak fuel enthalpy during the transient. Some contributions to the FTC from the two energy groups typically used for boiling water reactor transient analysis and the dependence of the contributions on exposure and coolant void content are discussed.