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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.
K. Koebke, L. Hetzelt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 2 | October 1985 | Pages 123-131
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A27435
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For nodal light water reactor calculations, the reconstruction of local multigroup neutron flux and current distributions within a node is discussed. Interpolation schemes that exploit the typical behavior of multigroup neutron spectra are proposed. These spectral interpolation schemes will be seen to be more accurate than the usual polynomial approaches. They reduce the error of pin power interpolation to that of fast flux interpolation. Thus the accuracy of one node per assembly calculations is considerably enhanced. The improvement is demonstrated by several benchmark problems.