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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.
Mark H. Stedry, J. Kenneth Shultis, Richard E. Faw
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 289-294
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24190
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A hybrid Monte Carlo and integral line-beam method is used to determine the effect of a horizontal slab shield above a gamma-ray source on the resulting skyshine doses. A simplified Monte Carlo procedure is used to determine the energy and angular distribution of photons escaping the source shield into the atmosphere. The escaping photons are then treated as a bare, point, skyshine source, and the integral line-beam method is used to estimate the skyshine dose at various distances from the source. From results for arbitrarily collimated and shielded sources, the skyshine dose is found to depend primarily on the mean-free-path thickness of the shield and only very weakly on the shield material.