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2014 ANNUAL REPORT 19 not going to answer all of the questions as to whether we can replace the UO2 with this new fuel thats just not going to happen with this small project and small budget. And in the course of answering these initial questions Senor saidweve already started to generate a whole bunch of new questions which will lay the foundation for follow-on studies if someone decides to take this to the next step.To introduce a new fuel or a new cladding material youre looking at a 15 to 20 year time frame to accomplish all the development and testing thats going to be required to license that new material with NRC.This project is really just step one of that process. Step two according to Balooch and the PNNL team would likely be further irradiation testing perhaps on slightly larger rodlets and at higher tempera- tures. But first theyll collaborate on a series of papers and reports outlining all the data collected from this experi- ment. From there its up to someone else to pick up the ball and run with it perhaps through an NSUF proposal that would utilize the unique capabilities and expertise available through its partner- ship network. I graduated from MIT said Balooch but I never thought that at some point MIT and UCB would work hand-in- hand together.This is one project where it actually happened. UCB got the ball rolling MIT got involved PNNL is involved INL is involved and one big advantage is that a lot of graduate students have benefitted from it.They come together work together and that has helped this project quite a bit. Its a great idea. There are really very limited opportu- nities for professors and their students to interact with a test reactor and to do an experiment and follow it all the way through Senor said.The NSUF creates those opportunities and were proud to be one of their partners.