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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 4 | April 1976 | Pages 440-441
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26845
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Recalculation of sodium voiding ramp rates in a loss-of-flow accident for a model of a 4000-MW(e) oxide-fueled liquid-metal fast breeder reactor gave results much lower than those found previously by Bleiweis et al. Only a part of this difference could be ascribed to differences in the primary coolant loop model.