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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.
R. D. M. Garcia
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 157 | Number 2 | October 2007 | Pages 225-235
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2724
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Special formulas for an efficient computation of first-flight escape and transmission probabilities in X-Y-Z geometry are presented. The approach used to derive these formulas is based on rearranging and grouping similar terms in the general three-dimensional formulas reported in a previous work by the author. When applied to fine grids, the new formulas are found to be orders of magnitude more efficient than the original ones. Numerical results are reported for test cases defined by regular hexahedra of various optical dimensions, including one where partitions are used to define the source and sink zones in the calculations of the escape and transmission probabilities.