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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 147-168
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24180
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An upwind numerical method for a six equation two-fluid model is presented based on a linearized Riemann solver. The construction of this approximate Riemann solver uses an extension of Roe’s method that has been successfully used to solve gas dynamics equations in aerodynamics problems. As far as the two-fluid model is hyperbolic, this numerical method seems very efficient for the numerical solution of two-phase flow problems. In practice, this new numerical method has proved to be stable on nonstaggered grids and capable of generating accurate nonoscillating solutions for two-phase flow calculations. The scheme was applied both to shock tube problems and to standard tests for two-fluid codes.