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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.
C. N. Kelber, L. C. Just, N. F. Morehouse, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 3 | November 1961 | Pages 285-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A26005
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In reactor kinetics problems where it is desirable to take the space dependence of reactor flux into account, the time dependent diffusion equation must be solved. The solution of this equation on an analog computer requires a large amount of equipment. If the equation is written the form, where the volume integral of the divergence of neutron current has been replaced by the surface integral of the current, then a large reduction in the number of mesh points and consequently in the amount of equipment is possible. An example is given and compared with the flux distribution computed on a digital machine.