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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.
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The fission cross sections of 232Th, 233U, 234U, 235U, 236U, 237Np, 238U, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, and 242Pu from 1 keV to 10 MeV published up to July, 1965, were analyzed previously to select best fission cross sections for fast-reactor analysis. Since the completion of that work, new data have been produced which necessitate reevaluation of the fission cross sections particularly in the region 1 to 5 MeV. The revised data presented here are believed to be of greater consistency and, hence, accuracy than the previous selection.