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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.
Martin Becker, Narinder N. Kaushal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 307-309
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26744
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Neutron spectra in uranium depleted in the 235U isotope are analyzed with ENDF/B-III data, accounting for high-order anisotropic scattering. Two principal conclusions are made. First, changes made to inelastic scattering data relative to earlier ENDF/B files are not effective in reducing discrepancies between calculated and measured spectra. Second, changes made to unresolved capture data lead to significant improvement in the relation between calculation and experiment.