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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.
Malte Edenius, Ake Ahlin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 3 | November 1988 | Pages 342-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29048
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The CASMO code is an assembly spectrum code that uses multigroup integral transport theory with four thermal energy groups for the two-dimensional calculation. The latest version, CASMO-3, contains several new features, specifically a new data library, multibundle capability, gamma detector calculation, flux discontinuity factor edit, and an option for generating transport theory corrected baffle/reflector data. Extensive benchmarking, including comparisons against cold- and high-temperature critical experiments, Monte Carlo calculations, measured isotopics, and power reactor core follow, has verified that accurate results are obtained. The new multibundle capability has been used for studies of interassembly spectrum coupling and for validation of core physics methods.