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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 Sekimoto, Koji Oishi, Tsuneyuki Hojo, Kiminobu Hojo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 3 | November 1985 | Pages 359-367
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17311
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The scalar neutron spectrum per source neutron was measured with a miniature NE-213 spectrometer at several positions in water irradiated with deuterium-tritium neutrons. The measured spectrum was compared with a calculated one using the MORSE-GG Monte Carlo code with a modified point-detector estimator presented by Carter and Cashwell and the GICXFNS group cross-section set processed from the ENDF/B-IV library. The measured and calculated spectra agreed within the errors estimated from the statistical error and unfolding oscillations.