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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.
S. N. Cramer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 237-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27154
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The fictitious scattering radiation transport model, suitable for Monte Carlo applications in geometrically complex systems, has been extended for use in deep-penetration calculations by the development of an appropriate next-flight estimator. Mathematical derivations are given, and it is shown that the estimation scheme is actually a one-dimensional version of the general model. Sample problems are solved to illustrate the use of the next-flight estimator, its variance characteristics, and the time-saving features of the model. Other items discussed are coupling techniques with standard methods, systems with large cross sections, and inclusion of the fictitious scattering model in multigroup cross-section structure.