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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.
W. L. Whittemore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 2 | August 1968 | Pages 195-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20657
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The General Atomic Neutron Velocity Selector was used to study the details of neutron scattering in liquid D2O maintained at 300° K. The scattering into various angular directions between 30 and 120° is studied for incident neutrons with energies ranging up to ∼0.65 eV. The energy-transfer cross sections, corrected for plural scattering effects, are evaluated to provide data in regions of large energy and momentum transfers not previously available and not readily accessible to experimenters using a reactor as a source of neutrons. The present results agree satisfactorily with the previous results but indicate that the previous results contain effects due to plural scattering in the sample. The present results also are compared with theory. Although there are some regions of acceptable agreement, other regions of poorer agreement indicate that each of these theoretical treatments may need further attention.