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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.
P. K. Sarkar, M. A. Prasad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 3 | June 1979 | Pages 243-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20146
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Integral equations are derived to provide the expected statistical error in any biased Monte Carlo transport calculation. The equations result from a generalization of a recent formulation by Amster and Djomehri. The present treatment is general enough to handle situations where more than one particle emerge from a collision with distribution in the statistical weights. These formulations have been used to obtain the variance and the number of collisions per history in a few Monte Carlo schemes using exponential transform. The schemes considered include procedures such as splitting, weighting in lieu of absorption, and next-event estimation. Optimization of different procedures as well as their comparative merits are discussed for a sample one-group problem.