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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.
M. Ashraf Atta, D. N. Fry, J. E. Mott, and W. T. King
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 2 | May 1978 | Pages 264-268
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27209
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Fluctuations in the neutron flux caused by steam bubbles were analyzed to infer the average void fraction in the four fuel bundles that surround an in-core detector string in a boiling water reactor. The velocity of steam bubbles was inferred from the phase lag between axially displaced in-core fission detectors. This velocity, together with the measured power distribution and mass flow rate, was used to obtain the void fraction as a function of axial position. The results are in agreement with the predictions based on the Zuber et al. model, except near the top of the fuel channel.