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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.
S. K. Gupta, M. A. Prasad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 2 | May 1979 | Pages 192-200
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19652
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A semi-analytical technique making use of a set of coupled integral equations has been developed for solving problems in electron transport. This method is applicable to one-dimensional finite systems. The flux and source density are expanded in Fourier series, and a set of integral equations relating the Fourier coefficients is derived. This set of coupled equations is solved by iteration. Dose distributions and transmitted energy spectra have been obtained for plane perpendicular and point isotropic sources. These compare well with earlier calculations for both low- and high-Z materials.