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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.
K. Bingham Cady, Melville Clark, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 491-507
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18768
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A calculational method for Boltzmann's one-velocity, isotropic scattering transport equation is developed for cylindrical rods. The starting point is Peierls' integral equation, and the technique may be interpreted as a moments method or a variational method. Numerical results in the form of graphs are given for a set of standard problems. These problems include volume sources, surface sources, and the critical rod problem. For arbitrary, axially symmetric sources inside or outside the rod, a knowledge of the uncollided flux is sufficient to determine the escape probability from the rod in terms of these standard problems.