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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 652-669
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25851
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Certain conflicts arising from previous measurements of neutron flux parameters in the equilibrium spectrum of natural uranium have been resolved. The parameters which were investigated are listed below along with “best” values as measured in this work. , The experiment was performed at the Pajarito critical assemblies facility utilizing two exponential columns of natural uranium, each 30.7 in. high, having diameters of 15 and 21 in. and excited by a small fast reactor. The system was outdoors, elevated some 11 ft above the ground level to reduce flux perturbations due to backscattering of neutrons. Perturbation corrected measurements in both columns made by several detection methods and with various source spectra agree to within experimental error and are consistent with calculated values.