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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.
Gilbert Epstein, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 1 | May 1975 | Pages 81-84
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A40346
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One limitation of conventional neutron age theory is that the first collision made by a particle when emitted by a source occurs right at the source. If a first-collision source is used explicitly, one no longer obtains an analytical solution, a principal advantage of age theory. In this Note, an approximate form that permits analytical solution is used for the distribution of first collisions in plane geometry. Substantial improvement over age theory results.