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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.
Jingshang Zhang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 116 | Number 1 | January 1994 | Pages 35-41
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-28
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On the basis of successful studies on the pickup mechanism of composite particle emission and the angular distribution of single-nucleon emissions, a theoretical method for calculating the doubledifferential cross section of alpha-particle emissions is proposed. As an example, the double-differential cross sections of alpha particles in the neutron-induced 56Fe(n,xα) reaction have been calculated at En = 14.5 MeV. The theoretical results reproduce the experimental data successfully.