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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.
H. Gerwin, W. Scherer, E. Teuchert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 302-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23682
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The TINTE code deals with the nuclear and thermal transient behavior of a high-temperature reactor, taking into consideration the mutual feedback effects in two-dimensional r-z geometry, including the following: 1. time-dependent neutron flux calculation 2. time-dependent heat source distribution (local and nonlocal fractions) 3. time-dependent heat transport from the fuel to the fuel element surface 4. time-dependent global temperature distribution 5. gas flow distribution for a given mass flow or given pressure difference or even under natural circulation conditions 6. convection and its feedback to the circulation. The TINTE code has been tested against transient experiments performed at the Arbeitsgemein-schaft Versuchsreaktor. It has also been used successfully for other reactor investigations and thermofluid problems including design studies for a small heating reactor of the peu à peu loading type.