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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.
Laurent Cretinon, Vivien Ballesio, Georges Wattiez, Dominique Talbourdet (EDF)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 776-786
As relays, sockets, relay boards and frames will soon reach their qualified life for the French 900 MW Fleet, EDF has to reassess this qualified life. Although several methods are proposed by the IEC 60780 standard, the only one which is applicable here consists in performing additional tests on aged equipment coming from different NPPs. The tests followed by this equipment are described as well as the results obtained. It is demonstrated that a large majority of this equipment can be safely used for 10 or 20 more years at least.