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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.
C. Coceva, P. Giacobbe, M. Magnani
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 2 | October 1985 | Pages 209-219
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A27442
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The analysis of two 91Zr neutron transmission experiments performed some years ago at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Geel electron Linacs showed systematic discrepancy in the resonance neutron width estimation. The two sets of data are comprehensively reanalyzed by a shape least-squares method that builds up a single system of normal equations. An accurate resolution function description was obtained by Monte Carlo calculation of the moderation and detection contributions. The two experiments are found to be in complete agreement and a single set of resonance neutron widths is obtained.