ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Jul 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
August 2026
Nuclear Technology
July 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
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.
R. D. M. Garcia, C. E. Siewert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 136 | Number 1 | September 2000 | Pages 140-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2150
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An analytical version of the discrete ordinates method is used to solve a class of boundary-value problems based on a linear Boltzmann equation relevant to the transport of neutral hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen plasma. In addition to a complete development of the discrete ordinates method for the considered application, the computational algorithm is implemented to yield very accurate results for a number of half-space and finite-slab problems. The developed code is also used to correct some entries in a previously reported tabulation of results. The established algorithm is considered especially easy to use, and the code runs (typically) in <1 s on a 400-MHz Pentium-based personal computer.