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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.
L. F. Hansen, C. Wong, T. Komoto, J. D. Anderson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 1 | May 1976 | Pages 27-35
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26854
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Proposed fusion reactor blanket designs bring into focus a large number of problems dealing with the interaction of 14-MeV neutrons with different materials. Carbon, oxygen, aluminum, titanium, and iron are among the materials used in the blanket. To have confidence in fusion reactor blanket calculations, a necessary prerequisite is that the transport code correctly describes the interaction of 14-MeV neutrons with the materials of the blanket. Spherical assemblies of the above materials ranging from 1 to 5 mean-free-paths in thickness have been bombarded with a centered nominal 14-MeV neutron source. The emitted neutron energy spectra were measured using time-of-flight techniques (3-nsec full-width-at-half-maximum system resolution) in a geometry where the flight path (7 to 10 m) is long compared to the dimensions of the spherical targets. The spectra have been calculated with the Monte Carlo neutron transport code TART using the ENDF/B-III and -IV neutron libraries and compared with measurements.