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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.
Richard B. Jones, Morton Tavel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 1 | May 1975 | Pages 90-92
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A40349
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The accuracy of the phase space time evolution method applied to neutron transport is contrasted with a one-dimensional discrete ordinates code with anisotropic scattering, ANISN, a time-dependent explicit discrete ordinates code, TIMEX, and theoretical benchmark values for critical bare slabs. The comparison is performed by calculating the critical value of v (the number of neutrons released per fission) for slabs of various halfwidths. Furthermore, pointwise flux differences are displayed for one particular slab thickness. Finally, a nonlinear time-dependent problem previously solved only in diffusion theory is considered.