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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.
Yoshiko Harima, Hideo Hirayama, Toshio Ishikawa, Yukio Sakamoto, Shun-ich Tanaka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 3 | July 1987 | Pages 241-252
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16385
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Exposure and absorbed dose buildup factors for a photon point source in infinite beryllium have been calculated in the low-energy range of 0.03 to 0.3 MeV, for penetration depths up to 40 mfp, using two discrete ordinates codes, PALLAS-PL,SP-Br and ANISN. Comparisons of both result to values obtained by point Monte Carlo calculations using the electron gamma shower version 4 code showed reasonable agreement for two types of sources: normally incident and point isotropic sources. The fitting parameters of a geometric-progression method formula were determined for the resulting buildup factor data. These fitting parameters are in good agreement with the basic data within 5% over a great variation in magnitude.