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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.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 1967 | Pages 444-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17293
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Monte Carlo calculations, employing the albedo concept, have been carried out to determine the thermal-neutron flux distributions along the centerlines of a straight, a two-legged, and a three-legged square open concrete duct for a particularly demanding source geometry. The neutrons entering the duct were of thermal energy. The calculations used differential angular albedo data for concrete which have been reported previously. A comparison of the results of the calculations with those from a geometrically similar experiment shows good agreement and places on a firm foundation the concept of treating the thermal-neutron duct transmission problem as a reflection phenomenon at a point that is describable by the differential albedo properties of the walls.