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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.
J. A. de Juren, M. Reier, R. W. Stooksberry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 2 | October 1961 | Pages 179-191
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A28063
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The distribution in water of indium resonance neutrons from a 1.4 Mev D-D source has been measured in planes perpendicular to the deuteron beam up to 28 cm in the forward direction from the source. The values of the integrated activities over the planes (including the extrapolated region beyond the range of measurements in each plane) are presented. In addition, a method is described for inferring an age from a D-D source by finding an angle where the distribution is equivalent to that from an isotropic and monoenergetic source. The age of indium resonance neutrons obtained for an equivalent source at 4.3 Mev is 54.4 ± 1.4 cm2. Comparison is made with calculated values of the age.