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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.
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.