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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.
J. E. Kelly, M. S. Kazimi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 3 | July 1982 | Pages 305-318
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A20276
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A simplified approach is described for selection of the constitutive relations for the interphase exchange terms in the two-fluid code, THERMIT, The approach used distinguishes between pre- and post-critical heat flux conditions. Interfacial mass, energy, and momentum exchange terms are selected and tested against one-dimensional measurements for a wide range of mass flow rate, pressure, and void fraction conditions. It is concluded that the simplified regime-map approach leads to accurate predictions for light water reactor applications, excluding depressurization events.