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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.
J. T. Harvey, J. L. Meason, H. L. Wright
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 160-161
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27135
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The measurement of the neutron spectrum from the White Sands Missile Range Fast Burst Reactor (FBR) in the presence of the experimenter's table is reported herein. A reinvestigation of this neutron spectrum was performed as a result of a recently published work, which indicates that the experimenter's table has a considerable softening effect on the neutron spectrum from the FBR. Based on such spectral parameters as average energy, integral fluence, and spectral index, we find the neutron spectrum associated with the experimenter's table to be essentially identical to the free-field leakage spectrum.