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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. Halperin and R. W. Stoughton, C. M. Stevens, D. E. Ferguson and D. C. Overholt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 2 | May 1956 | Pages 108-111
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17515
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Depleted uranium was irradiated in the thermal neutron flux of the Low Intensity Test Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From mass spectrographic analysis of Pu240 and from chemical determination of Pu content, the effective capture cross section (including both thermal and epithermal neutron capture) was determined for Np239 to be 80 ± 15 barns.
