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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.
Kazuo Shin, Kagetomo Miyahara, Eiji Tanabe, Yoshitomo Uwamino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 1 | May 1995 | Pages 40-54
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24104
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Measurements of the double-differential thick-target neutron yield are made for 75- and 120-MeV 12C5+, 153-MeV 16O5+, and 40-MeV alpha particles bombarding carbon, aluminum, copper, and lead targets. The measured data are parameterized by using the two-component moving source model. The systematic variation of the equilibrium neutron (EN) yield with incident ions and targets is analyzed by using the thus-obtained moving source parameters, and a simple expression is proposed to describe the systematics in the EN yield. The systematic change in the nonequilibrium neutron (NEN) yield was formulated to a simple expression by using the local hot spot model. The proposed expression reproduced well the measured EN and NEN yields.