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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.
Ralph M. Singer, Jerry L. Gillette, Gerald H. Golden, Dale Mohr, Wayne K. Lehto, Charles C. Price, John I. Sackett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 75-82
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27006
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The Experimental Breeder Reactor II is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor and is designed to operate at a thermal power of 62.5 MW and an electrical generation rate of 20 MW. In a continuing program devoted to the understanding of the thermal, hydraulic, and neutronic behavior of this reactor under both normal and off-normal operating conditions, a series of steady-state natural convection tests have been conducted. Instrumentation utilized for the control and observation of the reactor behavior during these experiments included both the normal plant sensors as well as those located in-core within a special fueled subassembly. The results of these measurements have been compared to the predictions of an analytical model of the entire primary heat transport circuit and satisfactory agreement was obtained.