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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.
R. A. Schrack, O. A. Wasson,D. C. Larson, J. K. Dickens, J. H. Todd
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 4 | August 1993 | Pages 352-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24044
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Relative cross-section measurements for the 10B(n, α1γ)7Li reaction were made using the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator Laboratory neutron source. The cross sections were measured by observing the 478-keV photon using an intrinsic germanium detector. The neutron flux was monitored with a high-efficiency plastic scintillator. Monte Carlo calculations were used to provide multiple-scattering and neutron-attenuation corrections to the data. The measured cross sections differ as much as 40% from the ENDF/B-VI evaluation for incident neutron energies greater than 1.5 MeV.
