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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.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 339-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17354
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Single-velocity Monte Carlo calculations and measurements have been performed to determine the differential angular thermal-neutron albedos for a reinforced concrete for monodirectional beams of incident thermal neutrons. Preliminary calculations using a statistical estimation technique indicate up to 50 scatterings should be followed for each neutron to produce good estimates of the differential albedos, and up to 100 scatterings to produce good estimates of the capture gamma-ray differential dose albedos. Deviation between experiment and calculation can be reduced to an average of 5.1% for 72 points of comparison if an anisotropic scattering law for water deduced from earlier Argonne National Laboratory measurements is assumed.