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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.
L. Green, J. A. Mitchell, N. M. Steen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 3 | March 1973 | Pages 257-272
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28979
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The 252Cf prompt-fission-neutron spectrum has been measured by time-of-flight techniques over the energy range 0.5 to 13 MeV. Significant analytical and experimental improvements over earlier measurements were employed. The data were simultaneously analyzed with the angular pattern data of Bowman et al., using a model which includes anisotropy of emission in the neutron fragment coordinate system and a stationary source. Based on this analysis, the mean energy is found to be 2.105 ± 0.014 MeV. It is also concluded that the fragment emission spectra are highly anisotropic. The anisotropy is dictated by the data presented here, rather than by angular patterns. The existence of the stationary source is supported by both data types. A Maxwellian fit to the data provided a temperature parameter of 1.406 ± 0.015 MeV. While the spectrum clearly deviates from a Maxwellian, this simple representation was found to be adequate to ±5% from 0.7 to 8.0 MeV.