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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.
Masaaki Mori and Mitsuru Kawamura, Koichi Yamate
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 41-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24127
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A benchmark study is presented of new methodologies of the Studsvik CASMO-4/SIMULATE-3 advanced nuclear design code system against a pressurized water reactor (PWR)-type mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel critical experiment with high plutonium content. Both CASMO-4 two-dimensional transport core calculations and SIMULATE-3 nodal core calculations that use the pin power reconstruction model are performed for the experimental geometries. All the assembly two-group constants for SIMULATE-3, including those for MOX assemblies, are generated by CASMO-4 singleassembly calculations. The CASMO-4 improved transmission probability method and the SIMULATE-3 improved nodal and spectral interaction models are verified to be effective for accurate prediction of the pin power distribution inside high plutonium content PWR MOX assemblies and UO2 assemblies that are adjacent to the MOX assemblies.