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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.
P. F. Windhofer, N. Pucker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 2 | October 1985 | Pages 223-233
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A27444
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Multiple-collision solutions of the time-, space-, and angle-dependent neutron transport equation in slab geometry are given. Two different monodirectional sources have been used: (a) a δ(t)-shaped pulse of neutrons [δ(t): Dirac delta distribution] impinging on the slab at time t = 0, and (b) a “rectangular” source, emitting neutrons for a time interval Δt, describing a somewhat more realistic situation. Detailed results up to collision order three are discussed and exhibited in several figures. Interestingly, the “scalar” flux of one-time-scattered neutrons for the slab problem turns out to be independent of space in the region influenced by the slab boundaries.