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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.
B. S. Finn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 4 | April 1960 | Pages 369-376
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25731
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Period-reactivity relationships were measured in the PDP, a large D2O-moderated reactor fueled with natural uranium. When compared with calculated relationships based on various delayed neutron parameters, the measured relationships were found to correspond almost exactly to those predicted from the delayed neutron parameters measured by Keepin for fission neutrons and by Bernstein for photoneutrons. Satisfactory agreement was also observed between values of the migration area obtained from a measured reactivity-buckling relationship and those obtained as the sum of the separately measured values of the thermal diffusion area and the neutron age.