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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 6 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 168-175
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28249
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The Monte Carlo technique has been used to determine some general properties of fast-neutron collimators for the cases in which the sources and detectors were finite disks. Based on these results, a collimator was designed to be used in determining the angular- and spatial-dependent neutron leakage spectrum from the TSF-SNAP reactor with a minimum distortion of the measured results. The detector-collimator response functions were then calculated for use in a separate Monte Carlo calculation of the leakage from the SNAP core. The adequacy of the response functions was determined by comparing the measured and calculated values of detector counts for a number of PoBe source locations off the axis of the collimator.