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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.
K. Ilieva, T. Apostolov, S. Belousov, Iv. Penev, I. Popova
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1997 | Pages 243-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24271
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Validation of neutron fluence on VVER-440 pressure vessel methodology is performed by comparative analysis of calculational compared with experimental results for the induced activity of scraps taken out from the inner surface of the VVER reactor pressure vessel after the 14th and 17th cycles. The mean deviation of 9% between the experimental and the calculated activity values is evaluated. The good consistency of the results demonstrates the validity of the neutron fluence calculational methodology.