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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.
C. D. Zerby and F. L. Keller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 190-218
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18261
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A review of the state-of-the-art of electron transport theory and calculations for electrons in the energy range below 10 MeV is presented. The basic interactions that influence the behavior of electrons are reviewed and theory and experimental results are compared wherever possible. The continuous slowing down model, the straggling model, and multiple scattering models are discussed and their use in thick-target moments method and Monte Carlo calculations is described. Results of the thick-target calculations are also compared with experimental results. Included in the review is a detailed description of the various complex-geometry electron transport programs presently being used.