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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.
Thomas M. Parker, Richard J. Kohrt, Sue I. Dederer, Larry E. Hochreiter, Walter R. Schwarz, Chon-Kwo Tsai, Michael Y. Young
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 2 | May 1989 | Pages 227-237
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34243
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Calculations were performed using a best-estimate computer code that determined the estimates of the 50th percentile peak cladding temperature (PCT) (1006 K) and the 95th percentile PCT (1263 K). These calculations included realistic WCOBRA/TRAC predictions of thermal-hydraulic phenomena occurring inside the vessel during upper plenum injection (UPI). The work done in applying realistic thermal-hydraulic methods for pressurized water reactors (PWRs) with UPI represents an important step in the maturation of advanced best-estimate computer codes like WCOBRA/ TRAC because their effect is finally being used in the licensing of operating plants, and their benefits are being used to make those PWRs more flexible and economic to operate.