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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.
Bobby Liley, Arthur G. Duneer, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 2 | August 1967 | Pages 189-197
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18527
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A secondary-dose equivalent model for calculating secondary proton and neutron doses in arbitrary geometries is described. The random position of origin of the secondary-nucleon, primary-proton residual kinetic energy and secondary-nucleon kinetic energy, and survival weight at the point of generation of the secondary particles are determined by random sampling techniques. Results from this model are compared with the experiment of Maienschein and Blosser which measured the dose from a 160-MeV proton be am incident on an aluminum slab. The agreement is generally better than the state-of-the-art accuracy for secondary-dose calculations.