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Radiant signs contract on microreactors for the military
California-based microreactor developer Radiant Industries has announced the signing of what it calls “the first-ever agreement” to deliver a mass-manufactured nuclear microreactor to a U.S. military base. The contract was signed with the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the U.S. Air Force as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program.
E. A. Straker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 168-175
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28249
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The Monte Carlo technique has been used to determine some general properties of fast-neutron collimators for the cases in which the sources and detectors were finite disks. Based on these results, a collimator was designed to be used in determining the angular- and spatial-dependent neutron leakage spectrum from the TSF-SNAP reactor with a minimum distortion of the measured results. The detector-collimator response functions were then calculated for use in a separate Monte Carlo calculation of the leakage from the SNAP core. The adequacy of the response functions was determined by comparing the measured and calculated values of detector counts for a number of PoBe source locations off the axis of the collimator.