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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.
Yukio Ishiguro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 2 | October 1972 | Pages 228-232
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A35509
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This paper describes an analysis of the Doppler effect of structural materials, having a possibility of the importance in fast reactor safety. The shielding factors of the effective capture cross sections are prepared for chromium, iron, and nickel based on the nuclear data of ENDF/B-II. Using these shielding factors, the Doppler experiments for stainless steel and natural iron performed in the JAERI-FCA cores are analyzed by a simple perturbation method.The computed results are in fairly good agreement with the experiment although they are a little lower. It is suggested that the lower values might be attributed to the missing level of the sharp p- and d-wave resonances above 30 keV or to neglecting the contributions from the unresolved resonances.