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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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The reactor protection system (both analog- and digital-based) setpoints of Combustion Engineering nuclear steam supply systems were examined to determine the feasibility of scram reduction by relaxing these setpoints. Representative safety analyses, using RETRAN-02, were performed to demonstrate that acceptable results were obtained with the relaxed setpoints. The steam generator low level, reactor trip on a turbine trip, and thermal margin/low pressure trip setpoints were successfully relaxed.