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Advanced reactor developer X-energy has announced that it has closed an oversubscribed Series D financing round of approximately $700 million. The funding proceeds are expected to be used to help continue the expansion of its supply chain and the commercial pipeline for its Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor and TRISO-X fuel, according the company.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 7 | July 1967 | Pages 433-435
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27841
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A fission-spectrum neutron dose-rate attenuation curve has been computed by the Monte Carlo method for lithium hydride penetrations up to 67.5 g/cm2. Gamma-ray exposure dose buildup factors have been computed for lithium hydride using the moments method. Discrete gamma-ray source energies in the range from 0.5 to 10 MeV were used, and calculations were made out to 20 mean free paths (at source energy).