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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.
Lawrence R. Steele, Daniel Carson, Charles E. Dryden
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 4 | April 1963 | Pages 451-457
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26462
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A Monte Carlo technique was developed for predicting the mode of energy transfer from fission fragments liberated within spherical solids to the fluid or neighboring particles in a slurry. Random location energy liberation for a large number of fissions within the solids and subsequent absorption was followed by means of a high-speed digital computer program. The fraction of recoil fragments and energy spectrum deposited in the fluid was characterized as a function of concentration and particle size of the solids.From ftom these results, a useful correlation equation was developed.