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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.
Feroz Ahmed, P. S. Grover, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 484-491
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A17591
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The propagation of neutron waves through crystalline moderator beryllium has been studied. The two simultaneous integral equations in the real and imaginary part of the flux are reduced to a single homogeneous integral equation in an extended energy interval and this is solved by an iterative procedure to determine the fundamental-mode eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for various angular frequencies of the source. We show that for frequencies exceeding a certain critical frequency ω*, no discrete mode exists. Various parameters have been deduced including D0, the diffusion constant, and C, the diffusion cooling constant. These values are compared with the values obtained from pulsed-neutron experiments.