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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.
E. E. Morris
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 246-260
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26823
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The energy-dependent neutron flux has been calculated for a point-isotropic fission source as a function of distance from the source in an infinite medium of sodium. The results were obtained by the moments method. Energy spectra are presented graphically for five distances from the source between 0 and 8 m and for energies between 1 eV and 15 MeV. Error estimates due to causes other than cross-section uncertainties or interpolations are made. The calculations are compared with a previously reported Monte Carlo calculation and with experimental measurements. Satisfactory agreement is observed.