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In June 2025, the Department of Energy announced the Reactor Pilot Program, an authorization pathway that allowed reactor developers to partner with the DOE to get first-of-a-kind (FOAK) reactors built and tested. Soon after, the DOE rolled out a complementary Fuel Line Pilot Program, which aimed to fast-track fuel projects. In all, 20 projects were accepted into the new programs.
William C. Dawn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 8 | August 2026 | Pages 1784-1797
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2551471
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Although it is commonplace to solve the space-time kinetics form of the neutron diffusion equation and the delayed neutron precursor equations, accurate benchmark solutions for such problems are lacking. In this work, an analytic solution to the neutron kinetics equations is provided via the Method of Manufactured Solutions. The form of the solution is a manufactured neutron flux and a prescribed absorption cross section . For the first time, an exact solution for the neutron flux as a function of space and time is provided in a form that can be used to verify existing neutron kinetics methods. Then, this solution is used to verify the neutron kinetics methods in the LMFR Utility for Physics Informed Nuclear Engineering (LUPINE) to demonstrate how this solution can be used for practical verification and quantifying the order of convergence of existing neutron kinetics methods.