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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.
Kazuo Shin, Hiroyuki Nakano, Tomonori Hyodo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 3 | November 1983 | Pages 280-288
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17320
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Measurements of neutron number albedos for double-layered slabs are made using a collimated beam of fission neutrons from a 252Cf source. The dependence of the number albedos on the first layer thickness is examined and compared with that for single-layered slabs. It is shown that the difference between the number albedos of one- and two-layered slabs is very large and that the albedos change exponentially with the thickness of the first layer.