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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.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 38 | Number 1 | October 1969 | Pages 53-62
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19353
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Calculations have been carried out to determine the time dependence of the residual photon dose rate around a high-energy proton accelerator. The development of the nucleon-meson cascade, the residual nuclei production, and the photon transport are calculated using Monte Carlo methods. Proton beams of 3- and 200-GeV and shields in the form of infinite cylinders of iron and heavy concrete are considered. Although the 3-GeV calculations are carried out with some exactitude, the results for the 200-GeV case mast be considered very approximate since the energy and angular distributions of the products from nuclear interactions in this energy range are not well known.