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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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Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32288
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An analysis was made of the uncertainty in the prediction of dose to an individual’s thyroid due to the transport of radioactive molecular iodine, 131I2, from air through the pasture-cow-milk pathway. This analysis was facilitated by the adoption of a model consisting of a multiplication of several factors represented by lognormal distributions of values. Results indicate there is a 64, 50, or 23% chance of the annual dose to an individual’s thyroid not exceeding the mean, median, or most probable doses, respectively. However, these results are tentative as a result of the limited amount of data available for annual average dose assessments. The suggestion is made that consideration be given to adopting a probabilistic approach to determining an acceptable probability of an individual receiving a dose that exceeds a limiting value.