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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.
Robert C. Block, Donald R. Harris, Si Hwan Kim, Katsuhei Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 263-281
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21430
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Neutron self-indication measurements simulating 238U capture in reactors have been carried out over the energy range from 3 eV to 3 keV using shielding samples at 77, 293, and 873 K. The data have been reduced to open and self-shielded capture yields provided on magnetic tape as benchmark data for comparison with nuclear design calculations. The important energy range below 100 eV has been analyzed in detail both to obtain improved resonance parameters for the levels at 6.67, 20.9, 36.8, 66.1, and 80.7 eV and to examine the accuracy with which cross sections are calculated from resonance formalisms. The improved resonance parameters, when used with an accurate but practical multilevel formalism, reduce by about one-half the long-standing discrepancy between calculated and measured 238U resonance capture integrals.