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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.
Roy A. Axford
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 2 | August 1958 | Pages 139-154
doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A15358
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Several problems in heat conduction relating to internally cooled nuclear reactors are solved by means of successive Schwarz-Christoffel transformations. Formulas are derived for the computation of the thermal resistance between hot and cold fluids flowing through a solid in parallel channels of variously shaped cross sections, including the square, rectangle, and an oval approximation to the circle and the ellipse.