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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.
Toshikazu Takeda, Akira Yoshimura, Takanobu Kamei, Keisho Shirakata
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 2 | October 1989 | Pages 157-165
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-1
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Formulas for predicting the uncertainty of neutronic performance parameters are derived for three methods: the bias factor method, the adjustment method, and the combined method. The prediction uncertainties are obtained by including both experimental and method errors. The adjustment method, in principle, yields the same uncertainty as the combined method. The derived formulas are applied to a large homogeneous l000-MW(electric) liquid-metal fast breeder reactor core.