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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.
Ashok Kumar, N. K. Saxena, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 24-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27000
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Propagation of neutron waves across a temperature discontinuity in an infinite graphite assembly is investigated using a two-group approach. The first slab is assumed to be of finite width and the second is taken to be infinite. It is seen that the presence of the second medium is felt in the first medium at a larger distance from the interface for waves of smaller frequencies. In the second medium, equilibrium is established at a distance that depends on the frequency of the wave. It increases with the approach of critical frequency, becomes very large for frequencies greater than the critical frequency, and decreases with further increase in the frequency.