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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
G. D. Bouchey, B. V. Koen, C. S. Beightler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | September 1971 | Pages 18-25
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A15893
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The dynamic programming algorithm is used to determine the optimal allocation of effort (measured in dollars or other appropriate units) to minimize the variance on the measurement of Material Unaccounted For (MUF) in a nuclear materials safeguards system. A multistage model of a hypothetical safeguards sampling system is formulated and optimized. The dynamic programming approach for optimization of a safeguards system allows more exact treatment of the model than is possible with classical optimization techniques and can easily be extended to handle large problems of the type that might be encountered in a real-world safeguards sampling system.
