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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.
Hideo Hirayama, Syuichi Ban, Shigeyuki Miura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 66-72
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16366
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Electromagnetic cascades produced in lead with 2.5-GeV bremsstrahlung were studied by using a lead glass shower counter and a thin Nal(Tl) scintillator with the help of the Monte Carlo code. Measured pulse-height distributions that show the charged-particle track length or the energy deposition distributions in the detector caused by a single source photon are compared with calculated results. The energy spectra of transmitted particles obtained from the calculation are presented to show the behavior of the electromagnetic cascade development.