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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.
F. A. Rough, A. W. Hare, R. B. Price, S. Alfant
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 111-121
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29079
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Uranium carbide containing about 5.2 w/o carbon has been irradiated to nominal burnups of 1000 and 5000 Mwd/ton of carbide. The results are generally encouraging, although some cracking has been observed. The observed density decreases were about the same at 1000 and 5000 Mwd/ton irradiations, being 0.7 to 2.5 and 0.6 to 2.5% respectively. The problems and questions raised by these irradiations are discussed. Additional irradiations are planned to study the effects of composition and of burnups to 15,000 Mwd/ton of carbide.