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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 277-281
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17272
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A Monte Carlo code, MORSE-CV, which can calculate the covariance of the scalar neutron flux spectrum, was developed. Integral values and their variances calculated from the spectrum and its covariance were compared with the corresponding values calculated directly using the Monte Carlo method. The integral value calculated from the spectrum agreed well with the directly calculated value. Their standard deviations also agreed well with each other when the spectral correlation between different energies was treated correctly. When the correlation was ignored, the deviation was about one-half of the former value.