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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.
Andrzej Maslowski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 2 | October 1973 | Pages 274-278
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28196
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The problem of optimal estimation of state for deterministic space-time reactor processes has been considered. Based on the proposed dynamic and observation models and the quality index, the problem of estimation has been formulated. The conditions of the optimal solution have been given using the theory of Lagrange functionals. Analytical and numerical solutions of power density estimation in the slab reactor are presented.