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The Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has developed a program to design the first instrumented capsule for testing a new nuclear reactor fuel and the capsule control and handling systems for a Republic of Korea research reactor. The contract is the first ever between INEEL and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and the Republic of Korea's nuclear power research agency. The two-phase project will help Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute develop testing capabilities at its new HANARO research reactor. Under the project, INEEL will do a preliminary design for an instrumented capsule to test the performance of a nuclear reactor fuel. They will also develop the control system for the experiments and the handling system to retrieve the capsule from the reactor and transfer it for examination. The project fits within INEEL's mission to promote and support safe nuclear power technology worldwide. Once this project is completed, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute will have the capability of designing future fuel test capsules.

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