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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.
R. R. Spencer, H. Beer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 390-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26900
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The neutron capture cross section of 59Co has been measured in the energy range from 6 to 200 keV using an 800-ℓ liquid-scintillator detector in conjunction with a pulsed 3-MV Van de Graaff generator as a neutron source. The excellent time resolution of the system, full width of 2.8 nsec at half maximum, permitted derivation of radiation widths for single s-wave resonances to 50-keV neutron energy. Average radiation widths of 0.564 ± 0.024 eVand 0.486 ± 0.016 eV were found for seven J = 3 resonances and ten J = 4 resonances, respectively. No significant correlation between and Γy was found for either spin state. The Maxwellian-averaged cross section for kT = 30 keV was found to be 38 mb over the region from 0.0253-eV to 200-keV neutron energy.