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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 1 | September 1989 | Pages 1-11
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23655
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Two new methods for decomposing scattering cross sections into the forward-peaked and smooth components required for Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck calculations are presented. The first is slightly simpler than existing methods and offers the same level of effectiveness. The second is more expensive than existing methods, but is much more effective. Legendre moments that give a positive representation for the angular Fokker-Planck operator and can be used in standard Sn codes are presented. Computational results are given that demonstrate the effectiveness of these new decomposition and representation techniques.