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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.
Kenny C. Gross
Nuclear Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | September 1979 | Pages 195-197
Technical Note | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32312
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An analytical tag-design scheme is presented that can be used to compute the isotopic compositions for a system of tag nodes, used to identify failed fuel assemblies in reactors with gas-bonded nuclear fuels. The tag nodes are located uniformly across the surfaces of two concentric spheres. This design minimizes the possibility of ambiguous leaker identification in the event of double-assembly failures, while reducing the enrichment requirements for the noble gases used to create the tags. Reducing the enrichment requirements lowers the overall tag costs and makes the design particularly well suited for reactors requiring large numbers of distinct tags.