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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.
Charles A. Wemple, Ilhan Dilber, Thomas J. Downar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 1 | May 1988 | Pages 36-40
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23543
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A vectorized source algorithm was developed for the Electric Power Research Institute light water reactor core nodal code SIMULA TE-E. The existing line successive displacement scheme was replaced by configuring the source for all nodes in a given plane as a single vector that could be computed simultaneously. Power distributions and eigenvalues for all test problems agreed exactly with the original scalar code. A factor of 2 to 7 reduction in execution time was achieved for typical pressurized water reactor problems on the CYBER 205.