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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.
M. A. Gaafer, L. Mango, + F. V. Orestano,†, F. Pistella
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | October 1975 | Pages 187-206
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24286
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Methods have been formulated to treat the rod cluster control for present-generation presurized water reactors within the computational codes available at Comitato Nazionale per l’Energia Nucleare (CNEN) for light water reactors. The reliability of these procedures has been verified by comparing the calculated results with the most significant experimental data available from measurements performed by the Centre d’Étude de l’Énergie Nucléaire-Studiecentrum Voor Kernenergie (Belgian Plutonium Recycling Program), Babcock & Wilcox (Lumped Burnable Poison Program), Westinghouse, and CNEN (Italian Nuclear Ship Propulsion Program). Reactivity and power distributions have been evaluated for a wide set of experimental configurations including several types of absorbing rods (e.g., B4C, Pyrex, and Ag-In-Cd alloy) with different radii in different lattices made of various fuel materials (e.g., UO2, PuO2, and UO2/PuO2).