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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
A. Aframian
Nuclear Technology | Volume 42 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 343-349
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32191
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Comparative measurements of neutron flux for low-level irradiations in the MOL-∑∑ reactor have been carried out using gold and indium foils and various solid-state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) in conjunction with fissile (n,f) and fertile (6Li and 10B) (n,α) converter foils as well as intrinsic detectors. Experimental and computed values of thermal and epithemal neutrons, using 6Li and 10B, are also presented for other arrangements. The results show good agreement and internal consistency for both thermal- and fast-neutron fluences, thus confirming the use of SSNTDs as absolute dosimetric devices.
