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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.
Richard M. Bidwell, Walter R. Wykoff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 443-451
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18459
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The Parasite Reactor is a 1-liter pressure bomb for phase studies under irradiation at temperatures and pressures up to at least 400°C and 5000 psi. Provision was made for sampling of solid, liquid, and gas phases for analysis. Power output was measured. Yields of radiolytic gases were calculated. It was established that uranyl nitrate solutions are sufficiently stable up to 248°C to be used for a proposed high-pressure Water Boiler reactor.