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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.
M. Marseguerra
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 16-26
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26618
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The probability generating function of the counts obtained in an arbitrary sequence of time intervals and counters is derived in the framework of the one-velocity point-reactor model without delayed neutrons. The main feature of the method is that the multiple derivatives of the probability generating function, which provide the joint probabilities and the joint moments, can be easily calculated from recurrence relations. The procedure is well suited to computer programming, and, indeed, a Fortran IV program has been written. Some conditioned probability profiles and moments thereby obtained are reported.