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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 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 581-590
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31867
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Bergbau-Forschung GmbH has developed a fluidized bed coal gasifier into which the reaction heat is transferred from a gas-cooled high-temperature nuclear reactor (HTR). Extensive material research has shown that new alloys based on Incoloy 800 will meet the specifications required for the heat exchanger. According to bench and pilot plant scale experiments, a technical scale gasifier will process ∼50.103 kg of low volatile bituminous coal/h at 40 bar (4 MPa). Such HTR parameters as helium outlet and inlet temperatures, such coal parameters as ash and water content or reactivity, and other parameters exert an impact on operating data of a combined plant consisting of an HTR and a gas plant.