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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.
C. D. Petrie, M. L. Storm, P. F. Zweifel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 6 | November 1957 | Pages 728-744
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A35488
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The calculation of averaged thermal diffusion coefficients and absorption cross sections for hydrogenous assemblies is discussed, and numerical results are presented. Comparison is made with available experimental information. The averages are taken over Wigner-Wilkins spectra, which assume moderation by a perfect gas of hydrogen atoms in the presence of a 1/v absorber. The Radkowsky prescription has been used to obtain transport cross sections for various compounds containing hydrogen. Power series expansions are presented which simplify the calculation of average diffusion coefficients for mixtures.