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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 NCSD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
John A. Miller
Alternate Chair:
Amy E. van der Vyver
Session Organizer:
Benjamin Martin
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ANS-8 Nuclear Criticality Safety Consensus Standards -- Current Initiatives
3:15–3:35PM EST
Douglas G. Bowen (ORNL)
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Coupling SCALE with DAKOTA for Axial Burnup Profiles Assessment in Burnup Credit
3:35–3:55PM EST
Veronica Karriem (ORNL), Robert Lefebvre (ORNL), William Marshall (ORNL)
SFP Criticality Code Validation for ATF and LEU+
3:55–4:15PM EST
Michael Wenner (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Robert Hall (EPRI), Hatice Akkurt (EPRI)
Thermal Scattering Law Data Development for Paraffin Wax
4:15–4:35PM EST
T. Ahmed (NCSU), B.K. Laramee (NCSU), A.I. Hawari (NCSU)
Accelerated Basin De-Inventory and Spent Fuel Project Criticality Safety
4:35–4:55PM EST
Amanda Szasz (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)