The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has selected 13 new projects across 12 companies for its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative in a significant expansion of the DOE-authorization pathway that channels advanced reactor and fuel-cycle developers toward demonstration on federal and non-federal sites.

The selections—spanning microreactor developers, enrichment startups, fuel fabrication firms, and isotope producers—add the first major round since NRIC opened the program to broader industry applications in late April and set a July 8 deadline for its initial competitive round.

Read more in POWER Magazine here.

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