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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.
L. F. Hansen, J. D. Anderson, R. J. Doyas, R. J. Howerton, T. Komoto, C. M. Logan, C. Wong, J. L. Kammerdiener
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 3 | November 1974 | Pages 345-348
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23461
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The neutron spectra emitted from 2 and 4 mean-free-paths of concrete irradiated by 14-MeV neutrons have been measured between 14 and 2 MeV using the sphere transmission and time-of-flight techniques. The spectra have been calculated with the Monte Carlo neutron transport code TART using the ENDL Livermore neutron library and the ENDF/B-III neutron library. From the comparison between measurements and calculations, it was inferred that the nonelastic cross section for oxygen in the ENDL library was too large. A revision of the cross sections for 14- and 14.6-MeV neutrons was carried out and resulted in very good agreement between measurements and calculations.