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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.
J. K. Dickens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 8-16
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16359
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Recent measurements of relative yields for 95Zr, I25Sb, 137Cs, 14lCe, 144Ce, and I35Eu for fast-neutron fission of samples enriched in the actinides 243,244,246,248Cm have been combined with a simple mass-distribution model to predict complete mass distributions for fast-neutron fission of each of these four curium actinides. Complete descriptions of the data analysis and of the model and its application and limitations are given.
