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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 162-168
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A28496
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To ensure an optimal application of fuel behavior codes, international standard problems (ISPs) are performed by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Calculations performed with complex fuel analysis codes consume considerable implementation and running times. To avoid the application of these codes, a fast-running deformation code was extended to a fuel behavior code called BALO-2A. With this code, two standard problems were performed: ISP-14, which is based on the bundle experiment REBEKA-6, and ISP-19, performed at the Phebus facility. In each standard problem, different methods have to be applied to obtain boundary conditions and input values. The results indicate that BALO-2A simulates fuel behavior under loss-of-coolant accident conditions quite well.