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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.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session|Panel
Friday, December 3, 2021|8:00–9:45AM EST |Georgetown East
Session Chairs:
Lawrence E. Boing (ANL)
Dustin G. Miller
Session Organizers:
Joseph Carignan (Carignan & Assoc.)
Student Assistant:
Jaden Miller
This panel will review the history of nuclear decommissioning in the United States and internationally and discuss lessons learned that can be applied to today's decommissioning practices.
Thomas LaGuardia
LaGuardia & Associates, LLC
Paul Dickman
ANL
Rebecca Tadesse
Nuclear Energy Agency
James Byrne
Decommissioning Specialist, Empyrean, Principal, Byrne & Assoc., LLC
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