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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.
Weston M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 3 | June 1967 | Pages 443-449
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A28959
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Three new models have been developed for fast-reactor physics calculations. These were obtained from the energy-dependent P1 equations by a modal expansion of the neutron flux. For certain classes of problems, these models provide attractive alternatives and supplements to conventional multigroup finite-difference models, in that considerable reductions in complexity and computational effort are realized. Integral experimental data can be used directly in one of the models, and physical insight can be incorporated into all the models via the choice of expansion modes. Each of the models was applied to calculate the integral properties of fast-reactor critical assemblies.