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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 6 | December 1959 | Pages 487-492
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Assuming a uniform distribution of ThO2 slurry particles suspended in an aqueous medium, the probability of a recoil fission fragment escaping the parent slurry particle and then coming to rest within another slurry particle has been estimated. The results indicate that for the slurry particle diameters and volume concentrations that may be expected in certain homogeneous reactor systems only a small percentage of the fission fragments will end their range within slurry particles. The theoretical predictions compare favorably with experimental results from a U-0 aqueous slurry system.