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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE-NE’s newest fuel consortium includes defense from antitrust laws
The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy is setting up a nuclear fuel Defense Production Act Consortium that will seek voluntary agreements with interested companies “to increase fuel availability, provide more access to reliable power, and end America’s reliance on foreign sources of enriched uranium and critical materials needed to power the nation’s nuclear renaissance.” According to an August 22 DOE press release, the plan invokes the Defense Production Act (DPA) to give consortium members “defense from antitrust laws when certain criteria are met” and “allow industry consultation to develop plans of action.” DOE-NE is looking for interested companies to join the consortium ahead of its first meeting, scheduled for October 14.
Anton Andrashov (Radics LLC), Ievgenii Bakhmach (Research and Production Corporation Radiy), Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Andriy Kovalenko, (Centre for Safety Infrastructure-Oriented Research and Analysis)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 327-335
The paper summarizes approaches and successful Equipment Qualification process performed in the scope of RadICS FPGA-based platform certification under US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requirements. Such equipment was represented by a test specimen, built on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based RadICS Platform, which was previously certified under IEC 61508 to meet Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 requirements. Design and development processes of the test specimen were under recently developed 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Quality Management System. The paper also describes the general strategy of US NRC certification and an approach to Equipment Qualification, including preparation to Equipment Qualification, types of equipment used in Equipment Qualification process, configuration of the equipment, general plan of the Equipment Qualification process, as well as description for the external factors. Comprehensive statistics and lessons learned for the performed Equipment Qualification process, as well as appropriate results are presented. Moreover, the scope of subsequent audit, performed by US NRC representatives, is discussed.