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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.
S. N. Cramer, T. Y. Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 180-187
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A15731
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The analysis of neutron spectra emitted from a 14-MeV source and streaming through a void steel duct embedded in concrete is carried out using a multigroup Monte Carlo code on a small computer. The calculated results are compared with experimental results and with other calculational analyses involving continuous energy Monte Carlo methods. The computational methods agree when the Pn expansion of the multigroup method is sufficiently extended. Some discrepancies with the experimental results, found in earlier analyses, still remain; and these are investigated with regard to the use of a new modification of the evaluated iron data, the spreading of the calculated results for comparison with experimental spectra, and various other modeling details.