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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.
L. D. Reed, K. W. Lee, J. A. Gieseke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 75 | Number 2 | August 1980 | Pages 167-180
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A21306
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The behavior of contained aerosols following a hypothetical accident of a liquid-metal fast breeder reactor is analyzed. The effects of turbulent coagulation, thermophoretic deposition, and reduced agglomerate density are included in the analysis. The method of moments is utilized as a solution procedure and is discussed in some detail. Calculated results are compared with previous laboratory measurements. The predictions of the suspended aerosol concentration are found to be somewhat conservative but in general agreement with experimental results.