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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.
K. R. Koch, F. M. Clikeman,R. H. Johnson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 4 | April 1986 | Pages 596-605
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A18615
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Gamma-ray energy deposition measurements were made in a simulated fast reactor blanket of the Purdue University Fast Breeder Blanket Facility (FBBF) using CaF2:Dy thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs). The TLDs were encased in either stainless steel or lead sleeves, and cavity ionization theory corrections known as f factors were used to relate the TLD dose to the sleeve dose. Corrections for the neutron response of the TLDs were made by determining the relative contributions of the TLDs neutron and gamma-ray responses.