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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.
Bruce I. Hauss, William E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 326-333
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20621
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An improved space-time kinetics method that can be applied to the analysis of either fast or thermal reactor transients is presented. The method blends the concepts of formal reduction (i. e., the quasi-static method) and time synthesis into a single unified approach (called quasi-static synthesis) to handle spacetime equations. Preliminary results obtained with the method indicate reduced computer time, while maintaining computational accuracy, when compared to several other kinetics methods presently in use.