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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.
K. Forsberg, Ning He, A. R. Massih
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 1 | January 1996 | Pages 142-150
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28555
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Distribution of some important fuel rod performance parameters, internal rod pressure, and fission gas release in a boiling water reactor are studied using the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) probabilistic method. Rod power histories and important fabrication parameters are considered. The deterministic fuel performance code STAV6 together with a QMC pre- and postprocessor are used in the analysis. The convergence rate of the QMC method is considerably higher than the standard Monte Carlo method, which saves a substantial amount of computer time. Asymptotically, the error for QMC is proportional to 1/N, and for Monte Carlo, it is essentially proportional to 1/ where N is the number of calculations (computer runs). Principles of the QMC method are discussed, and an algorithm to generate such data is outlined.