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 # NEAR
 NEAR (Non-Equilibrium Archetypes of Reactors): Houses cyclus archetypes for non-equilibrium reactors with core-loading and enrichment variability.
 
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+> Cite this work as (pending)...
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 ## ./Baseline/
 Contains a single deployment of a traditional Cycamore reactor archetype along with the corresponding analysis notebook and output file.
 
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 Houses the Core LOading Versatile non-Equilibrium Reactor (CLOVER), a generic Cyclus archetype that has the capability to update the loading pattern of a reactor core.
 
 ## ./writing/
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+This folder contains the writing on this project, and is governed by the license therein.
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+> [!Important]
+> This code is licensed under a BSD 3-Clause License, with the exception of the writing directory (which contains a separate license).
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