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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.
June 14–18, 2009
Advancing Nuclear Technology for a Greater Tomorrow
Atlanta, GA
Pre-registration is now closed. Please register on-site.
General Chair:
Jeffrey T. Gasser (Southern Nuclear Operating Company)
Program Chair:
Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Dr. Charles (Chip) Martin (Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board)
Kurshad Muftuoglu (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
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Formerly Space Nuclear Conference.
General Chairs:
Samit Bhattacharyya (Savannah River Site)
George Schmidt (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Technical Program Chairs:
Shannon Bragg-Sitton (Texas A&M University)
Michael Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Steven D. Howe (Idaho National Laboratory Center for Space Nuclear Research)
John Scott (NASA Johnson Space Center)
