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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.
P. Landini, G. Spiga, F. Premuda
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 3 | June 1978 | Pages 295-306
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27214
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The singular differential equations of arbitrary order, derived in a tensorial approximation to the integral transport for monoenergetic neutrons in slab and sphere geometries, are solved by a power series expansion without imposing any boundary condition. The relation to the exact integral transport approach is theoretically studied, and numerical calculations for the tensorial differential approach are worked out.