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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.
Jack M. Hochman, Charles F. Bonilla
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 434-442
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20629
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The electrical resistivity of high purity liquid cesium was determined in a pressurized furnace from 600 to 3000°F (316 to 1649°C) by measurements of the electrical resistance of a Ta-10%W alloy tube, both empty and filled with cesium. The resistivity found for the lower temperatures agrees moderately well with previously published results, the discrepancy decreasing at the highest temperatures. The thermal conductivity of liquid cesium was calculated from its resistivity using a Lorenz number of 2.3 × 10−8 (V/deg K)2. By comparing the cesium data with a reduced resistivity vs reduced temperature curve for mercury, the critical temperature of cesium is found to be 3190 °F (1754 °C), with a corresponding critical pressure of 130.8 atm from an available vapor-pressure correlation.