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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 3 | June 1968 | Pages 302-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20212
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Measurements have been made of the anisotropy of neutron slowing down in Al-H2O plate lattices. The moments of the slowing down distribution from fission to 1.46 eV were determined in the two characteristic directions at two volume ratios using the point-source, point-detector method. For the 1:1 case, with an Al plate thickness of 0.25 in., the ages parallel and perpendicular to the plates were 65.4 ± 0.8 and 60.8 ± 0.8 cm2, respectively, giving an anisotropy of 1.076 ± 0.02. In the 2:1 (A1:H2O) case, with an Al thickness of 0.50 in., the corresponding values are 100.3 ± 1.5 and 92.5 ± 1.3 cm2, giving an anisotropy of 1.085 ± 0.02. The higher moments were characterized by higher anisotropics.