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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.
Ernest G. Silver
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 275-284
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A21092
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The pulsed-neutron method has been used with ice cylinders in the buckling range from 0.039 to 0.739 cm−2 over temperatures between −5 and −85°C. The purpose was to determine whether there would be early establishment of an asymptotic neutron spectrum and, since this proved to be so, to measure the neutron diffusion parameters. The neutron decay data were analyzed by using a nonlinear least-squares fitting method with two exponential modes. The resulting diffusion parameters are compared with those found by other workers for H2O at various temperatures, and the effect of the solid-liquid phase transition on the diffusion coefficient and diffusion cooling coefficient is discussed.