{"id":221308,"date":"2026-03-08T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies-exchangemonitor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:10:08","slug":"doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies-exchangemonitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies-exchangemonitor\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE creates \u2018Launch Pad\u2019 for emerging nuclear technologies &#8211; ExchangeMonitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies\/\">DOE creates \u2018Launch Pad\u2019 for emerging nuclear technologies &#8211; ExchangeMonitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies\/\">https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 14:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.exchangemonitor.com\">www.exchangemonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a new initiative focused on accelerated development of new advanced nuclear technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DOE said in its March 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> press release<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the new initiative, Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, will create a hub to speed up advanced nuclear technology deployment using technical and regulatory frameworks on federal and non-federal lands. The initiative will operate through DOE\u2019s National Reactor Innovation Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new initiative builds on DOE\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reactor pilot program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Under the program, DOE plans to have at least three reactors reach criticality by July 4. Additionally, the department <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used its authority to approve construction and operation of the reactors to be tested at its national laboratories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative will further expand that authorization to include testing and operation to prepare first-of-a-kind technology for commercialization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DOE said the Innovation Center will accept and evaluate applications yearly for Launch Pad, with the initial request for applications (RFA) due out in coming months. The Innovation Center will also host an industry day in conjunction with the release of the RFA that will be announced at a later date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOE creates \u2018Launch Pad\u2019 for emerging nuclear technologies &#8211; ExchangeMonitor https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/doe-creates-launch-pad-for-emerging-nuclear-technologies\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-08 14:07:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.exchangemonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/exm-yoast-fallback.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,64,62,65],"class_list":["post-221308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-emerging","tag-energy","tag-innovation","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221310,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221308\/revisions\/221310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}