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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.
Dušan Babala
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 243-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17474
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Formulas for interval distributions of neutron counts, which open possibilities for new methods of reactor noise measurements, are derived. The proposed experimental techniques promise to be less time consuming than the zero probability method of Mogilner and Zolotukhin. The useful information contained in a sequence of counts lies in its deviation from Poisson statistics. The magnitude of this deviation depends either on the counter efficiency or on the intensity of the external neutron source. From this point of view, the techniques of noise measurements can be divided into two groups: the “efficiency sensitive” methods (Feynman) and the “power sensitive” methods (Rossi-α). The proposed count-to-count interval distribution measurement seems to combine the advantages of both groups.