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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.
R. Ofek, A. Tsechanski, A. Goldfeld, G. Shani, A. E. Profio, J. J. Wagschal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 239-257
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23723
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The Ben Gurion University 15-MeV“clean” neutron field is used to investigate various problems encountered in fusion reactor blanket designs. In particular, the adequacy of the 7Li tritium production neutron cross section was analyzed by comparing measured neutron energy spectra in a lithium tank with detailed Monte Carlo calculations. It is seen that new evaluations are needed that would consider the various mechanisms that contribute to tritium production in 7Li and determine the shape of the secondary neutron energy spectrum. It is also found that uncertainties in the alignment of the source-target-detector configuration in integral experiments may result in considerable discrepancies in the analyses of such experiments.