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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 36 | Number 2 | December 1977 | Pages 187-192
Technical Paper | International Safeguard / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31925
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The introduction of x-ray paper for the radiographic control of Materials Testing Reactor fuel was preceded by an investigation of the sensitometric properties of Kodak and Agfa-Gevaert paper at 45 and 150 kV. Radiographic quality of aluminum, steel, and uranium/aluminum block and uranium/aluminum plate radiographs showed that the x-ray paper has adequate quality (image quality indicator sensitivity better than 2%) and therefore can be used instead of x-ray film, which is more expensive and requires longer exposure and processing time.