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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, J. Barish, F. S. Alsmiller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 162-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27404
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A model that includes fission for predicting particle production spectra from medium-energy nucleon and pion collisions with uranium nuclei has been incorporated into the nucleon-meson transport code HETC. A variety of calculated results obtained with this revised code for protons incident on uranium targets have been obtained and are compared with experimental data and with the calculations of other investigators. For incident proton energies 1 GeV, the calculated results are in good agreement with several, but not all, of the available experiments.