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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 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 339-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17354
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Single-velocity Monte Carlo calculations and measurements have been performed to determine the differential angular thermal-neutron albedos for a reinforced concrete for monodirectional beams of incident thermal neutrons. Preliminary calculations using a statistical estimation technique indicate up to 50 scatterings should be followed for each neutron to produce good estimates of the differential albedos, and up to 100 scatterings to produce good estimates of the capture gamma-ray differential dose albedos. Deviation between experiment and calculation can be reduced to an average of 5.1% for 72 points of comparison if an anisotropic scattering law for water deduced from earlier Argonne National Laboratory measurements is assumed.