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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. C. Browne, R. W. Benjamin, D. G. Karraker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 166-170
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27138
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The differential neutron-induced fission cross section of 245Cm was measured from 0.01 to 35 eV at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 100-MeV electron Linac using ∼6 µg of 245Cm. The energy dependence of the cross section is non-1/v below 1 eV due mainly to a bound level. Normalizing to previous integral data, a thermal (2200 m/s) fission cross section of 2143 ± 58 b is obtained. Resonance parameters were extracted and are compared to previous results. Calculated values of the resonance integrals for fission and capture using these parameters are in good agreement with previous measurements.