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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.
S. Kaizerman, E. Wacholder, E. Elias
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 2 | June 1983 | Pages 166-168
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17724
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A simple flow pattern map (vm versus α coordinates) is proposed that provides computational means for selecting steam/water two-phase flow constitutive equations. This flow pattern map can easily be implemented in a thermal-hydraulic code. Determination of the map boundaries between different flow patterns for any channel hydraulic diameter is feasible. This determination is based partially on theoretical criteria that were developed for adiabatic two-phase flows and partially on physical reasoning. Good agreement is obtained between the predicted map regions and experimental data from uniformly heated four-rod bundle and tubes setups.