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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.
W. P. Poenitz, J. F. Whalen, P. Guenther, A. B. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 358-359
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27314
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The total neutron cross section of 233U was measured between 40 keV and 4.5 MeV. “Monoenergetic” neutrons were used over the total energy range with the time-of-flight (TOF) technique employed for background suppression. At lower energies (<200 keV), pseudo-white spectra TOF techniques were also used. Present results are up to 10% higher than previous measurements between 40 and 500 keV, and a similar difference exists relative to the evaluated nuclear data file ENDF/B-IV.