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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.
Lloyd B. Thomas, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | October 1982 | Pages 63-69
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A33052
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Estimation of gap conductance in nuclear reactor fuel rods requires values for thermal accommodation coefficients of several gases on Zircaloy, uranium-dioxide, stainless steel, and other surfaces. These values for UO2 have now been obtained by observing cooling rates of a UO2 sphere suspended in the several gases in a manner similar to the authors’ previous work on Zircaloy-2. These measurements are on so-called “engineering” surfaces, and no special attempt other than mild baking under high vacuum pumping was used to clean the surfaces.