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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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Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 285-293
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34250
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The RELAP5 thermal-hydraulic transient code has been applied to a reactor safety analysis of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) to a reactor with thin fuel plates operating at highly subcooled conditions, ∼75°C below boiling temperatures at operating pressure, 25°C below boiling conditions at atmosphere pressure that occurs immediately following the LOCA. Depressurization is not the critical issue in this case, but plate boiling and reflooding and mixing of vapor and fluid streams are the critical aspects of the calculation. The analysis of the results shows the sensitivity of the calculation to the time periods of the steam “chugging” effects in the water channels between fuel plates. This MOD2 version is the first version with which we found consistency and realism in the results calculated for these very difficult transient conditions.