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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.
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The 63Cu(n,α)60Co cross section has been measured by activation relative to the well-known 27Al(n,α)24Na cross section. The 60Co and 24Na activities induced were measured with a 5- × 5-in. NaI(Tl) well-type scintillation detector. The average neutron energy was 14.80 ± 0.02 MeV, with an energy spread of ∼0.3 MeV. As the result, a value of 40.7 mb was obtained for the cross section with an accuracy of approximately ±2.5% (effective standard deviation) on a 1σ confidence level.