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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.
Floyd E. Dunn, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 66-82
Technical paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A28421
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Continuous neutron slowing down theory has proved useful in problems associated with thermal reactors. There are, however, two principal problem areas which inhibit obtaining the full benefits of continuous neutron slowing down models in fast reactor problems. One problem area is the treatment of inelastic scattering. The second problem area is the treatment of scattering and absorption resonances in a mixture of several moderating materials. In this paper, new methods are advanced for each of these problem areas. These methods are shown to lead to a continuous neutron slowing down model of reasonable accuracy for fast reactor problems. The inelastic treatment is based on matching the solution for an easily solvable reference problem (the zero absorption case). The mixture treatments (several are considered) are based on averaging procedures over a scattering interval instead of at a single energy.