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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.
Yuehang Li, Donghao He, Xiaojing Liu, Qingquan Pan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 5 | May 2026 | Pages 1118-1135
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2510708
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The Transient Fission Matrix Combination (TFMC) method is a novel hybrid algorithm that performs transient neutron transport calculations with high fidelity and computational efficiency. In this paper, we verify the TFMC method using the control rod insertion/withdrawal C5G7-TD benchmark. The TD4 test case involves five complex control rod movement patterns in a four-assembly light water reactor model. On 20 parallel cores, each 16-s transient simulation completes in approximately 2 min (excluding database generation time). The computed total power and power distributions agree closely with reference results in all cases. These findings demonstrate the TFMC method’s potential as an efficient and accurate tool for transient neutron transport simulations.