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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EST|Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Douglas G. Bowen
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Progress Towards the Reality of Low-Temperature Critical Experiments with Low-Temperature TEX
1:00–1:20PM EST
Eric Aboud (LLNL), Jesse Norris (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL), Nick Killingsworth (LLNL), Paul Yap-Chiongco (LLNL), Venkata Ravindra (National Nuclear Laboratory), Alfie O'Neill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Deborah Hill (National Nuclear Laboratory), Steve Graham (National Nuclear Laboratory)
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Development of Shielding Benchmarks Using the Godiva IV Assembly
1:20–1:40PM EST
Riley Cumberland (ORNL)
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Critical Experiments Targeting the Epithermal/Intermediate Cross Sections of Tantalum
1:40–2:00PM EST
David E. Ames (Sandia), Gary A. Harms (Sandia), Elijah Lutz (Sandia), Mathieu Dupont (ORNL)
Godiva IV Burst Reproducibility and Diagnostic Testing
2:00–2:20PM EST
Joetta M. Goda (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL), Bruce Pierson (PNNL), Danielle Redhouse (Sandia), Robert A. Weldon Jr. (LANL)
Preliminary Analysis of the LLNL Measurements for the Joint LLNL, LANL, and IRSN High Multiplication Subcritical Measurements
2:20–2:40PM EST
Jesse Norris (LLNL)