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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
Stefano Marchetti, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 6 | June 2026 | Pages 1323-1339
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2515349
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Multi-unit (MU) nuclear power plants (NPPs) share safety features. As these may degrade in time, we propose a framework of an integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment to consider their time-dependent fragility. Physics-of-failure models of the fragility of the shared safety features are embedded into a dynamic model of the accident scenario evolution, whose uncertainties are accounted for by Monte Carlo simulation. We apply the proposed framework to a case study concerning a MU NPP composed of four small modular dual fluid reactors sharing the emergency core cooling systems and the emergency diesel generators. The results show the effectiveness of the framework in providing a dynamic risk picture that accounts for the degradation of shared safety features.