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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.
M. Cancé, G. Grenier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 2 | November 1978 | Pages 197-203
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27290
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Measurements of the absolute neutron fission cross sections of 235U, 238U, and 239Pu have been made at 13.9 and 14.6 MeV with a double 4π ionization chamber. The associated particle method with the time-of-flight technique was used. Our final values of σnf(235U), σnf(238U), σnf(239Pu), σnf(238U)/σnf(235U), and σnf(239Pu)/σnf(235U) are compared to previous data.