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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., O. W. Hermann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 2 | May 1970 | Pages 254-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19687
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The energy distribution of neutrons from proton-nucleus nonelastic collisions for 18-MeV protons on 14N, 27Al, 56Fe, 181Ta, and 208Pb and for 15-MeV protons on 27Al and 208Pb have been calculated with the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions and with the evaporation model of nuclear reactions. Comparisons between the calculated neutron spectra and experimental data are presented, and it is shown that neither model is entirely reliable in the energy region considered but that the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model is the more reliable of the two.
