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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.
Hiroshi Maekawa, Yasushi Seki, Toru Hiraoka, Masatoshi Moriyama
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 335-340
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15426
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Spherical lithium-metal assemblies with and without a graphite reflector were prepared by stacking lithium arid graphite blocks to investigate the neu-tronics in the fusion reactor blanket. The ratio of 238 U-to-285U fission rates was measured by micro -fission chambers. The fission ratio was calculated by the one-dimensional transport code ANISN with the Pg-Sg approximation using a 42-group neutron cross-section set. The fission ratios measured in the lithium-metal assembly without a graphite reflector agree well with the calculated ones. In the assembly with a graphite reflector, however, there is a large discrepancy between experiment and calculation.