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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 206 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 126-132
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1618130
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As part of technology assessment of proposed commercial nuclear power reactor technologies for Ghana’s Nuclear Power Programme, the neutronic safety parameters of the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) and High Temperature Pressurized Reactor (HPR) reactor technologies are theoretically analyzed and compared. The MCNP neutronic code was employed as a computational tool to analyze the reactivity temperature coefficients, moderator void coefficient, criticality, and neutron behavior at various operating conditions. The HPR, which is still under construction and under theoretical safety analysis, showed good inherent safety features comparable to the already existing EPR technology.