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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 105 | Number 3 | July 1990 | Pages 271-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A19191
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An exact solution using the Wiener-Hopf technique is derived for a rewetting model. In this mixed-boundary model, a constant heat transfer coefficient is assumed in the wetted part of the solid slab, whereas an exponentially decaying heat flux is assumed in that part of the solid that is cooled by a mixture of vapor and liquid droplets (the precursory cooling). The solution, which is of a simple form, is found to be in excellent agreement with a solution by separation of variables, previously obtained for the same problem. Numerical results are presented for a wide range of model parameters.