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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.
Garth E. Cummings
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 10 | October 1967 | Pages 641-645
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27925
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Steady-state and adiabatic calorimeters were used successfully to measure radiation heating rates in lead and polyethylene samples in various facilities at the Livermore Pool-Type Reactor, With the steady-state calorimeter, rates were determined by the temperature difference across a known thermal resistance connecting the samples to a heat sink. The adiabatic calorimeter was used to determine heating rates by the rate of change of temperature in the sample at the time the sample and heat sink temperature were the same. The adiabatic calorimeters were easier to construct, but required more time for measurement.