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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.
Eishi Ibe, Shunsuke Uchida
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 4 | December 1983 | Pages 339-349
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18381
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A computer program package AQUARY has been developed for quantitative evaluation of concentration distributions of the radiolytic species in overall boiling water reactor primary systems. The hydrogen peroxide decomposition rate k, the gas release coefficient ϵ, and the accumulation of products through recirculation of the coolant were taken into consideration. The following relations were found: 1. Hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide concentrations in the core are substantially high, and the following relation holds in the core, 2[O2] = [H2] < [H2O2]. 2. The hydrogen peroxide concentration contributes markedly to the oxygen concentration at the water sampling stations in a plant. In particular, the following equation holds if k > 0.1 s-1, 2[O2] at the sampling station = [H2O2] at the core exit.