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The deadline arrives: Checking in on the Reactor Pilot Program
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair:
Matthew D. Zimmer
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Ling Zou
Staff Producer:
Pat Schroeder (American Nuclear Society)
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Coarse Mesh Turbulence Prediction for Reactor Transient Simulations Using Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
Yang Liu (Argonne National Laboratory), Rui Hu (Argonne National Laboratory), Prasanna Balaprakash (Argonne National Laboratory), Acacia J. Brunett (Argonne National Laboratory), Aleksandr V. Obabko (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Sensitivity Analysis of the 1-D Thermal Stratification Model via Forward and Adjoint Methods
Cihang Lu (Virginia Commonwealth University), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Measurement of bubble departure diameters in high-pressure flow boiling of water
Artyom Kossolapov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Bren A. Phillips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matteo Bucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Invariant Analysis of Flow in a 5x5 Rod Bundle With a Central Thimble Tube
Adam R. Kraus (Pennsylvania State University), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Thomas Norddine (École des Ponts ParisTech), Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF R&D)
