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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 108 | Number 2 | June 1991 | Pages 208-213
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23818
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A computer routine was written to enable an efficient, yet accurate, interpolation of the basic probabilities required in integral transport calculations of single lattice, as well as multicell, structures. These are The tables within which the routine interpolates contain remainders between accurate probabilities to respective analytical approximations. There are ∼4000 entries for a cylindrical or spherical geometry and 50 for slab geometry. The accuracy is generally within a few tenths of a percent relative error for all the probabilities and can be much lower. The range of optical thicknesses covered is 0 to 20. All the probabilities required for a given layer can be generated on a CRA Y-XMP in a 5 × 10-6 s. A single Dancoff probability can be generated in ∼2.7 × 10-6 s.