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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.
C. R. Richey, R. C. Lloyd and E. D. Clayton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 2 | February 1965 | Pages 217-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21046
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Exponential and approach-to-critical experiments have been conducted with slightly enriched uranium in light water. The uranium was fabricated into elements of 0.175 to 1.66 in. diam with enrichments of 1.007 to 3.063 wt% U235. Exponential measurements have also been made with natural uranium rods (0.925 in. diam) in light water. Analytical methods were used to correlate the experimental results and extend the data to include uranium rods containing 4.0 and 5.0 wt% U235.