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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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Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 1 | January 1967 | Pages 18-25
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27820
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Crossed-progeny fueling systems are those in which a reactor, such as a PWR, would burn 233U in natural uranium and supply plutonium to a D2O reactor, which in turn would burn the plutonium in thorium and supply 233U for the PWR. Optimum moderator-to-fuel ratios are determined for these systems. They are influenced noticeably by plutonium credits but little by processing costs. Conversion ratios, neutron balances, and fuel cycle costs are calculated. Uranium-233 in natural uranium is an attractive fuel in a PWR, but plutonium-in-thorium, which does not appear attractive in a PWR, does appear so in a D2O-moderated reactor.