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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 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 101-105
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) / Safeguard | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31441
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New technology has been developed for nuclear material safeguards, in addition to the technology of nondestructive assay. New information on nuclear material shipments by truck supports efforts to provide a secure vehicle and radio communications system to improve the protection. Physical containment at fixed plant sites includes doorway personnel monitors to provide improved protection against covert removal of small quantities of nuclear material including plutonium and enriched uranium. Technology for better nuclear materials accountability and inventory verification includes sample dissolution techniques and automated spectrophotometric and titrimetric equipment enabling an analytical laboratory to increase the rate at which chemical analyses can be done for uranium and plutonium. Increased numbers of random samples will reduce ordinary uncertainties in accountability determinations due to random errors in individual measurements.