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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.
W. S. Yang, P. J. Finck, H. Khalil
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 1 | May 1992 | Pages 21-33
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23920
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A reconstruction method is developed for recovering pin burnup characteristics from fuel cycle calculations performed in hexagonal-z geometry using the nodal diffusion option of the DIF3D/REBUS-3 code system. Intranodal distributions of group fluxes, nuclide densities, power density, burnup, and fluence are efficiently computed using polynomial shapes constrained to satisfy nodal information. The accuracy of the method is tested by performing several fast reactor numerical benchmark calculations and by comparing predicted local burnups with values measured for experimental assemblies in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. The results indicate that the reconstruction methods are quite accurate yielding maximum errors in power and nuclide densities that are <2% for driver assemblies and typically <5% for blanket assemblies.