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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 681-686
Nuclear Analysis & Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12463
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To examine the accuracy in the neutronics calculations for the Li/V-alloy blanket system without Be neutron multiplier, a fusion neutronics experiment on a Li/V-alloy assembly has been performed with a 14 MeV neutron source. Reaction rates and tritium production rates (TPRs) in the assembly were measured with activation foils and Li2CO3 pellets. The measured reaction rates sensitive to fast neutrons agreed almost within ~10 % with ones calculated by using the MCNP5 code, JENDL-3.3 library and JENDL dosimetry file 99. Though there appeared a possibility of a significant underestimation in the transport calculations for the energy range of <~4 keV due to nuclear data of vanadium, the measured TPR was consistent with the calculated one within ~8 %.
