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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.
W. L. Filippone, R. Conversano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 1 | January 1983 | Pages 75-89
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17991
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A two-dimensional Sn computer code was modified to enable the calculation of α eigenvectors. Entire sets of eigenvectors were determined for sample problems involving extremely coarse mesh structures. A large percentage of the higher harmonics were complex and, for a majority of the cases investigated, the eigenvectors were not complete. For these latter cases the generalized eigenvectors were found, which together with the ordinary eigenvectors do form complete sets. The simple cases analyzed thus far give considerable insight into the eigenvector structure of more complex systems.