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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 188-196
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23715
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The transport equation is formulated against a moving background in the presence of external forces using the effective cross section and source formalism. One-dimensional slab and spherical geometries and two-dimensional cylindrical geometry are treated. Material acceleration terms are expanded, effective cross sections are generated, and moving sources are defined. Legendre expansions that can be coupled to standard multigroup cross sections and sources are suggested. Multigroup representations for the acceleration terms are also obtained. Specific applications are presented and contrasted. The treatment is appropriate for Eulerian reference frames.