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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.
S. Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 4 | December 1976 | Pages 466-470
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A14483
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Curves for the reciprocal asymptotic period versus positive reactivity for ENDF/B-IV delayed neutron data are presented for 232Th, 233U, 235U, 238U, 239Pu, 240Pu, and 241Pu nuclides. A procedure is described for reducing the dependence of reactivity interpretations, through period measurements, on the nuclidic composition of the fuel. The sensitivity of the results to incremental changes in the delayed neutron parameters is also presented. Reactivity, in dollar units, is sensitive to the relative yields of the delayed neutron groups.
