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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.
Wen-Sou Hou, Chia-Shou Lin, Ming Wen, Hsiao-Hua Hsu, and Jen-Chang Chou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 2 | May 1978 | Pages 188-192
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27199
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For the requirement of feasibility studies of the (11B + 1H) controlled thermonuclear reactor system, the 11B(α,p0)14C reaction has been studied with alpha particles of energies ranging from 4.4 to 6.7 MeV. Absolute differential cross sections were measured. Angular distributions and excitation functions are presented. The absolute error in the measured total cross sections is ∼13%.