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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.
Daniel T. Schmitt, Robert Slaughter, Gilbert L. Peterson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 182 | Number 2 | February 2016 | Pages 243-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE14-141
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Multiview geometry theory is applied to atmospheric nuclear tests filmed in the 1950s and 1960s, to estimate the three-dimensional locations of fixed structures and radiological material during the detonation. Results show that using bundle adjustment, points can be estimated with an average uncertainty of 0.68 m with 0.36, 0.28, and 0.37 m of uncertainty in the x-, y-, and z-directions, respectively.