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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.
Ansar Parvez, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 1 | July 1978 | Pages 130-136
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27244
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Interactive graphic techniques have been employed to analyze and interpret the discrepancies found between the integral measurement and the prediction of neutron flux in sodium. Direct adjustments have been made to improve the calculation-experiment agreement in the 10-keV to 1-MeV energy range. In general, the adjusted values for elastic cross sections have been found to be lower than the ENDF/B-IV values. Sensitivity of sodium spectra to the angular distribution of elastically scattered neutrons has also been determined.