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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.
P. F. Rago, N. Goldstein, E. Tochilin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | March 1970 | Pages 302-309
Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28678
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A fissian foil-Lexan detector system has been developed to monitor reactor neutrons. It is similar to the system based on counting fission gamma rays but has some advantages; i.e., permanently recorded tracks that can be read any time after exposure; integrated recording; microgram amounts of fissionable material needed; and the elimination of specialized gamma-ray counting equipment. Fission-product damage tracks in the Lexan (or mica) are counted under an optical microscope. For thick foils, fluence is determined from the sensitivity factor of 1.16 × 10−5 tracks/(neutron-barn). Fluence measurements with the two systems are compared for several reactor environments while dose measurements are compared with tissue-equivalent calorimeter values. The use of 232Th to replace 238U as the fissionable isotope for the energy interval of 1.5 to 3 MeV, and of 235U to replace 239Pu for energies <600 ke V, was also investigated. Neptunium is retained as the fissionable material for the energy interval 600 keV to 1.5 MeV and the sulfur-activation detector for energies >3 MeV.