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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.
Guohui Zhang, Guoyou Tang, Jinxiang Chen, Songbai Zhang, Zhaomin Shi, Jing Yuan, Zemin Chen, Yu. M. Gledenov, M. Sedysheva, G. Khuukhenkhuu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 142 | Number 2 | October 2002 | Pages 203-206
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2300
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The differential cross sections of the 10B(n, )7Li reaction were measured at 4.17, 5.02, 5.74, and 6.52 MeV by using a gridded ionization chamber. Neutrons were produced through the D(d,n)3He reaction. The absolute neutron flux was determined through the 238U(n,f) reaction. The experiment shows that as the neutron energy increases from 4.17 to 6.52 MeV, the differential cross section changes from almost 90-deg symmetry to obviously backward peaked in the center-of-mass reference system.