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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.
J. G. BAYLY, R. M. PEARCE
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 3 | May 1957 | Pages 352-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25400
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An electrical analog is described for the study of reactors whose nuclear properties vary with radius. Several neutron velocity groups can be used. The reactor is divided in uniform homogeneous regions which may be either slabs, spherical shells, or cylindrical shells. The group parameters may be independently varied in these regions and the analog immediately obtains the reactivity. The analog also yields the space distribution of the various neutron groups after being adjusted to the critical condition. A commercial, general purpose analog computer has been adapted to this problem. The analog can also solve the adjoint diffusion equations.