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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.
G. P. Lamaze, R. A. Schrack, O. A. Wasson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 2 | November 1978 | Pages 183-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27288
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The shape of the 6Li(n,α)T cross-section curve has been measured from 3- to 800-keV neutron energy. The neutrons were produced by the National Bureau of Standards 140-MeV Linac, and the measurements were made along the 200-m above-ground drift tube. The neutron flux was monitored by a 61-cm-long hydrogen gas proportional counter giving a direct ratio of the 6Li(n,α) cross section to the H(n,p) cross section. The 6Li(n,α) events were detected in a 0.5-mm-thick piece of 6Li glass (NE-912). The results were normalized to ENDF/B-V in the region from 10 to 100 keV. Overall uncertainties in the measurement are ∼2% in the range from 10 to 400 keV. Error analysis and comparisons with previous measurements are given.