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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.
Frank Kedziur
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 1 | May 1982 | Pages 9-22
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19591
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Stationary two-phase flow experiments at pressures up to 13 MPa and temperatures up to 600 K have been performed in a converging nozzle. The experiment is specially designed for the assessment of two-phase computer codes used in reactor safety analysis, in particular for loss-of-coolant accident blowdown calculations. An assessment by the codes DUESE, DRIX-2D, and RELAP4/MOD6 is reported. The shape of the nozzle, the instrumentation, and the experimental program are such that models and empirical parameters of a wide range of codes can be tested and determined, respectively. Results show the influence and magnitude of models and parameter variations, the effect of the dimensionality and the difference scheme of the code, and the relevance of the models as a function of the initial conditions.