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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.
J. G. Goodwin, F. R. Lorenz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 1 | July 1959 | Pages 49-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25626
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Five 30-lb, 4-in. diam iodide hafnium ingots representing material typical of that utilized for the Shippingport PWR were fabricated into strip. Typical tensile, impact, hardness, corrosion test weight gain, electrical resistivity, and chemical analysis values were obtained by testing samples from each strip. The effect of irradiation on the impact strength and hardness of hafnium strip was investigated by subjecting a total of 36 subsized Izod impact specimens to irradiation for two cycles in the MTR. A duplicate group of nonirradiated specimens was used as a control group. The mechanical, physical, and corrosion property measurements for the nonirradiated and irradiated samples showed no physically significant differences attributable to chemical analysis. The impact strength and hardness values for the irradiated specimens showed differences which were attributable to the integrated neutron flux received.