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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 38-42
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27268
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Differential cross sections are reported for elastic and inelastic scattering of neutrons from beryllium. Source neutrons were provided by the D(d,n)3 He reaction at energies from 7 to 15 MeV in 1-MeV steps. Scattered neutrons were observed over a flight path of 4 m at angles ranging from 25 to 160 deg in 5-deg increments. The integrated elastic scattering cross sections agree well with the ENDF/BIV cross-section set. The inelastic scattering cross sections are for the sum of the 1.69-, 2.43-, 2.8-, and 3.06-MeV-state cross sections and fall below the ENDF/B-IV predictions. Inelastic scattering to the 2.43-MeV state in 9Be accounts for less than half of the total 9Be(n,2n) cross sections above 8 MeV.
