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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.
Richard M. Bidwell, L. D. P. King, Walter R. Wykoff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 452-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18460
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Yields of nitrogen and hydrogen from several Water Boiler uranyl nitrate solutions were measured in the presence of excess oxygen gas. Nitrogen yield increased with increased uranyl nitrate concentration, but hydrogen yield decreased. The hydrogen yields agreed with those obtained by different techniques at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The nitrogen yield for a uranyl nitrate solution 1.0 M in nitrate is 0.004 molecule N2 per 100 ev.