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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.
N. Papmehl, Hans J. Zech
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 4 | April 1972 | Pages 435-448
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22435
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An explicit formulation of the one-velocity order of scattering method for neutrons is developed assuming plane geometry and anisotropic scattering. Calculations for the half-space albedo problem based on this method were performed for isotropic scattering and were checked against known results. Further numerical studies of reflection and transmission of slabs yield detailed information about the order of scattering needed for a desired accuracy and for given thickness and absorption of the slab. For slab thickness up to one mean-free-path eighth order of scattering is shown to yield deviations from exact values of <1%.