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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. M. Carroll, R. B. Perez, O. Sisman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 2 | May 1969 | Pages 232-237
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19720
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The nonfission (NF) heating and thermal-neutron flux were measured in copper as a function of distance from the core center line of the ORR Reactor at different times of a reactor cycle. Above the core, the NF heating is a linear function of the thermal-neutron flux φ expressed by Within the core the relation between the measured thermal-neutron flux and the NF heating is influenced by other factors.