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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.
M. V. Ramana Murty, K. Parthasaradhi, S. Ramamurty
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 51 | Number 3 | July 1973 | Pages 337-339
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26612
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The experimental total gamma-ray cross sections in the region 30 keV to 17.6 MeV are compared with the recent theoretical values and found to be in satisfactory agreement within 5% in general.
