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Launching into tomorrow: NRIC guides new era of research and deployment
In June 2025, the Department of Energy announced the Reactor Pilot Program, an authorization pathway that allowed reactor developers to partner with the DOE to get first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors built and tested. Soon after, the DOE rolled out a complementary Fuel Line Pilot Program, which aimed to fast-track fuel projects. In all, 20 projects were accepted into the new programs.
Rohan Teelock-Gaya, Valeria Raffuzzi, Eugene Shwageraus, Lee Morgan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 1 | March 2026 | Pages S436-S455
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2456414
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The XGBoost machine learning algorithm for regression was used to predict (n,2n) microscopic cross sections by training models on physical parameters describing various target nuclei and their corresponding evaluated (n,2n) cross sections sourced from ENDF/B-VIII. Research was concentrated on nuclides with nucleon numbers 30 A 208. Machine learning predictions were compared to library evaluations from ENDF/B-VIII, JENDL-5, JEFF-3.3, CENDL-3.2, and TENDL-2021. Predictions for many nuclides were found to be in agreement with existing evaluated cross sections, with 0.95, with respect to at least one library evaluation found for 73.5 ± 1.0% of nuclides in ENDF/B-VIII. Predictions were subsequently made on a wide range of exotic nuclides and compared to evaluations from the TENDL-2021 and JENDL-5 libraries.