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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 4 | Number 1 | January 1968 | Pages 47-53
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A26352
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A mutual inductance probe has been developed to determine interface locations between gas and liquid metal and between liquid salt and liquid metal. The probe is a bifilar coil of Nichrome wire on an alumina form contained in a Type-304 stainless-steel or ceramic wall. A high-frequency voltage supplied to one winding induces in the second winding a voltage that is related inversely to the depth of liquid surrounding the coil. Probes ≈5- and 14-in. long, were calibrated in liquid cadmium, bismuth, and sodium over a temperature range of 200 to 700°C. The device has several important advantages over other means of measuring liquid levels of corrosive fluids at high temperatures. It is compact, rugged, reliable, and reasonably accurate. For a calibrated probe, the average deviation in measured liquid level is about 3% of the length of the windings. The instrument is well adapted to operations in remotely operated facilities because it has no moving parts and can be replaced easily.