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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 4 | April 1959 | Pages 237-241
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25590
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In light water-moderated reactors the effects of adjacent fuel on resonance escape probability must be considered. These effects are a decrease of surface absorption and modification of the slowing down density by absorption. Modifications of the standard formula for calculating p are described and the results of detailed calculations on enriched uranium-dioxide fuel rods in water lattices are given. The effective resonance integral is calculated by the method of Wigner et al.