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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.
A. Chalupka, L. Malek, S. Tagesen, R. Böttger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 367-376
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29064
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By means of a time-of-flight experiment, the high-energy part of the 252Cf fission neutron spectrum is investigated with excellent shielding against cosmic radiation. Data analysis was performed with four different bias settings and results in the 9- to 29-MeV energy range were obtained. Small deviations from the Maxwellian shape (T = 1.42 MeV) were found; however, no indication of any neutron excess above 20 MeV was found.