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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.
A. Ziya Akcasu and Larry D. Noble
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 4 | August 1966 | Pages 427-429
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18564
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Two criteria for the Lagrange stability in reactors with an arbitrary linear feedback have been derived. The feedback kernel is assumed to be G(t) = rδ(t) + K(t), where r is the power-reactivity coefficient, and K(t), which is assumed to be bounded and integrable in (0, ∞), represents other feedback effects. The Laplace transform of K(t) is denoted by (s). It is found that “a) if r < 0 and r + (s) = 0 has no positive real roots, and b) if K(x)dx ≤ 0 for all t ≥ 0 in the case of r = 0, then all the solutions of the kinetic equations are bounded.”