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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.
E. Linn Draper, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 1 | October 1971 | Pages 22-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22332
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Four different epicadmium neutron flux spectra were produced by boron filter insertion in a beam port of the Cornell University 100-kW TRIGA reactor. The first spectrum was the unaltered (except for cadmium covers) fission slowing down spectrum; three hardened spectra were produced by the insertion of boron filters enriched in 10B. The shapes and amplitudes of the spectra were determined by the computer code SAND II to reproduce foil activation data obtained from a set of resonance and threshold detectors.
