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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.
Li Mao, J. C. Nimal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 136 | Number 3 | November 2000 | Pages 409-414
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2169
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The non-equally-probable step-function (NEPSF) representation has been proposed as a new method for selecting scattering angles from a multigroup transfer matrix for a medium of a single nuclide or a mixture. This technique avoids the disadvantage of the equally-probable step-function representation, which cannot well present the group-to-group transfer lax for a mixture. Similar to the discrete angle representation, the NEPSF representation can preserve precisely the moments of the scattering law; moreover, it has the advantage of eliminating ray effects. We give semianalytical procedures for obtaining P3 and P5 NEPSF representations, which will facilitate greatly low-order transfer matrix treatment in multigroup Monte Carlo.