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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.
William H. Miller, Walter Meyer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 4 | December 1977 | Pages 886-889
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A14506
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Albedos have been experimentally measured for a spectrum of fast fission neutrons incident on a 24- × 24- × 9-in. concrete slab. The source of fast neutrons for the experimental studies was the Missouri University Research Reactor; the direct and reflected neutron spectra were detected using a 2- × 2-in. liquid-scintillation spectrometer system. Previously published Monte Carlo calculated albedos have indicated a weak dependence on the azimuthal angle of reflection. These experimental measurements have confirmed this result and identified the effect of the incident angle on this relationship.