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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.
David G. Madland, Talmadge R. England
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 4 | December 1977 | Pages 859-865
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A14501
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A simple one-parameter model is presented for calculating the distribution of independent yield strength between ground and isomeric states of primary fission products formed by neutron-induced fission of actinide nuclei. Yield branching ratios are calculated as a function of neutron energy (thermal, fast, and 14-MeV) for 33 cases that span 144 fission product nuclei having isomeric states with known spins.