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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.
A. H. Kazi, T. A. Dunn, R. C. Harrison, D. O. Williams
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 450-463
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24383
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The Army Pulse Radiation Facility Reactor is a fast pulse, or burst, reactor generally used to provide a fast neutron environment In response to several test requirements, a number of fast neutron-to-gamma converter shields have been designed, calibrated, and placed into operation to produce a pulsed or steady-state gamma environment of ionizing radiation. The four basic converter configurations are (a) a narrow pulse converter box which has produced a maximum gamma dose rate of 3.8 × 108 rad/sec with a pulse width at half-maximum power of 50 μsec; (b) a wide pulse converter box which has produced 6.7 × 107 rad/sec at 400 μsec; (c) a narrow pulse converter cavity that has produced 7.7 × 108 rad/sec at 50 μsec; and (d) a wide pulse converter cavity that has produced 7.7 × 107 rad/sec at 1 msec. In terms of rads tissue, the gamma-to-neutron dose ratio varies from 0.1 (no converter) to ∼5; while in terms of rads (silicon), the neutron dose is almost 2 orders of magnitude less than the gamma dose.