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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.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 3 | September 1972 | Pages 462-464
Technical Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A16043
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Reactivity feedback is an important indicator in the analysis of the dynamic behavior of a nuclear reactor. The roddrop perturbation method is used at EBR-II to produce time-dependent power data which are pro cessed with an on-line digital data reduction procedure to produce time-dependent reactivity feedback; reactivity feedback models are defined in the time and frequency domains. This streamlined procedure has resulted in decreased data reduction time and man power requirements along with increased data integrity.