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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.
William L. Baldewicz, Ahmed R. Wazzan, David Okrent
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 263-267
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32326
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Grain size is one of the most important parameters affecting fission gas release and swelling of nuclear fuels. On the other hand, fission gas bubbles in previously irradiated fuel interact with moving grain boundaries and affect subsequent grain growth. Equations are developed that describe equiaxed grain growth in oxide fuel that has undergone previous irradiation (burnup) at temperatures too low to promote grain growth. The resulting expressions relate the grain growth rate at the new high temperature to the percent burnup (or fission gas content) experienced during the prior low-temperature period.