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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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The interface current method is generally used in supercell codes to accelerate computation of the collision probabilities needed for resolution of the integral neutron transport equation. This method was used to compute all the collision probabilities for a cluster geometry. The resulting complete collision probabilities were then compared with those computed using a direct method. The interface current method was much faster than the direct method for computing collision probabilities, with a loss in precision within the limits of error acceptable for reactor design calculations.