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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
According to INL, projects selected include reactor development and nuclear fuel cycle advancements, including fabrication, enrichment, and conversion technologies.
Thomas M. Sutton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 164-175
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2065872
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The results of neutron Monte Carlo (MC) transport calculations are subject to random fluctuations about their expected values. The term “neutron clustering” refers to situations in which these fluctuations exhibit particularly strong spatial correlations in iterated-fission-source calculations. Various idealized models of the MC process have been developed to study this phenomenon. Over time, these models have evolved to more realistically reflect the algorithms used in MC codes. This paper continues along this path by including the possibility that some neutrons will not terminate in an event that can potentially produce new neutrons and by considering an algorithm without replacement (WOR) for selecting the neutron source sites. It is shown that sampling source sites WOR versus with replacement can greatly reduce the degree of clustering.