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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. Bhandari, I. C. Nascimento
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 1 | May 1976 | Pages 19-26
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26853
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Data presently available on photofission cross sections, photoneutron cross sections, and the angular distribution of photofission fragments of actinides near threshold are reviewed. Some suggestions for additional studies are made with an aim toward a better understanding of the threshold fission phenomenon in the framework of a double-humped barrier in fission.
