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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.
S. C. McGuire,T. Z. Hossain, R. J. Soave
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 2 | June 1994 | Pages 134-139
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A20080
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The recent use is reported of neutron activation analysis to determine the elemental content of silicon-germanium layers that were epitaxially grown on antimony-doped single crystal silicon substrates. The substrates formed part of gold-contact Schottky diode circuits. Gamma rays from the activation products 75Ge and 77Ge were used, and the usefulness was demonstrated of the gallium Kα X ray, emitted in the electron capture decay of 71 Ge, to identify and quantify the germanium in our samples. Minor components of the silicon matrix and their bulk atomic concentrations for specimens having masses of ∼56 mg were germanium (4 ppm), gold (2 ppm), and antimony (32 ppm). Estimates for the germanium atom fraction x, in the layers, in the range of 6 to 8%, were obtained for the samples studied.