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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
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The multigroup diffusion equation has been solved by taking buckling to be energy dependent. This form of the solution has been justified in the paper. It has two distinct advantages: (a) the decay constant values so obtained are closer to the experimental results as compared to the ones obtained by taking constant buckling, and (b) it gives a decay constant dependent on the shape of the assembly.
