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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.
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Past reports have estimated occurrence rates for certain multiple failure events. These reports are based on the binomial failure rate (BFR) common cause model and on licensee event report data. Uncertainty distributions for the four basic BFR parameters formed the basis of the past reports. These distributions are tabulated, and from them an analyst can estimate, with uncertainty bounds, the rate or probability of a quite arbitrary multiple failure event. No longer is there a restriction to those events for which rates have been published.