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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | July 1980 | Pages 214-222
Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32484
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A dynamic model of a plutonium oxalate precipitator has been developed to provide a means of predicting plutonium inventory on a continuous basis. The model is based on state-of-the-art crystallization equations, which describe nucleation and growth phenomena. The model parameters have been obtained through the use of batch experimental data. For any time-dependent input concentrations and flow rates, the model permits one to calculate the output flow rate of the precipitate phase, the output concentration and flow rate of the filtrate phase, the degree of conversion, and the average particle size. The model has been used to study the approach to steady state, to investigate the response to input transients, and to simulate the control of the precipitation process.