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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.
A. H. Lumpkin, G. J. Berzins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 3 | July 1982 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A20292
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An anomalous, transient increase in signals from a test fuel pin was detected by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Pinhole Experiment system during an experiment at the Transient Reactor Test Facility. The high resolution image data show that the anomalous increase is definitely not related to internal fuel motion, but appears to correlate with the motion of a transient control rod and related effects. The significance of this observation lies in the effect's magnitude and in the potential for misinterpretation of such an effect as fuel motion within the test capsule, an issue of primary concern in reactor safety studies.