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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.
Krassimira D. Ilieva, Stoyan Y. Antonov, Sergey I. Belousov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 1 | January 1996 | Pages 131-135
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28553
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Calculation modeling of detector activity in a VVER/pressurized water reactor pressure vessel surveillance program, necessary for neutron fluence assessments, is developed. The detector activity for certain detectors could be obtained by solving the neutron transport equation by the appropriate activity source taking into consideration the time-dependent local power distribution. The presented results demonstrate the importance of accounting for local power variations.