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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 1 | October 1979 | Pages 110-113
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19314
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Perturbation theory is a collection of methods for determining the effect of a known perturbation on a given physical system. Inverse perturbation theory is defined as a collection of methods for determining the nature of the perturbation itself. This Note presents one method related to inverse perturbation theory, where calculated and measured parameters in one system bound the expected measured parameters in a related system subject to the same uncertainties as in the first system. The method is applied to reactor theory problems.