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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.
Dermott E. Cullen, Robert J. Howerton, Ernest F. Plechaty
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 74 | Number 2 | May 1980 | Pages 140-147
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19629
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Methods of performing continuous energy or multigroup charged-particle transport in hot media are discussed. In particular, it is pointed out that if one is to properly calculate reaction and energy deposition rates, one must properly handle the temperature dependence of cross sections and emission spectra when performing transport calculations.