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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.
Sule Ergun, Jason G. Williams, Lawrence E. Hochreiter, Hergen Wiersema, Marcel Slootman, Marek Stempniewicz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 163 | Number 2 | August 2008 | Pages 273-284
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3987
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In this study, calculations were performed to simulate a postulated large-break loss-of-coolant accident for the High Flux Reactor (HFR) cooling system using the COBRA-TF computer code. COBRA-TF has been chosen for this analysis since it has suitable and validated two-phase flow models and critical heat flux (CHF) correlations for channels having small hydraulic diameters. Calculations have been performed to determine the CHF margins for the HFR. Six types of calculations were performed to provide a range of CHF margins. All COBRA-TF calculations indicate that margin does exist to the CHF limit for the small-hydraulic-diameter highest-power HFR channel. The range of margin is 2.1 to 1.3 times the nominal power of the highest power channel, depending on the boundary conditions and CHF correlation used. The range of margin identified in the HFR analysis is consistent with the margin values used in commercial nuclear power plants.