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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 9 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 309-316
Fuel Element Performance Model | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28785
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A computer program has been developed and used to validate and adjust models for predicting fuel-pin deformations. An existing computer program, DEFORM, was combined with a clad swelling model to be a subroutine for calculating fuel-pin deformations. Predictions of deformations made with this subroutine are compared with measured deformations in a parameter fitting program, SIMPLEX. A comparison of analyses made with this program, using input data collected from experiments on four irradiated fuel pins, indicated that the program version assuming only a clad swelling model predicted the mean deformations of these pins better than the program version assuming both clad swelling and a mechanical interaction between the fuel material and the clad material.