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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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The target chamber of the National Ignition Facility must maintain an environment in which the laser optics can remain clean enough to avoid damage. Therefore melting and vaporization of target chamber materials by target explosions must be minimized. Computer simulations have been performed of the response of target chamber wall materials and laser debris shields to the target explosions. Additionally the deposition of tritium from the targets in the wall and optical materials have been calculated.