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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 293-295
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17480
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Total neutron cross sections for calcium and potassium have been measured using the transmission method. Monoenergetic neutrons were produced by the D(d,n)3He and T(d,n)4He reactions using the USANDL 750-keV Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. Measurements for each element were made at 7 neutron energies between 2.37 and 16 MeV. The measured total neutron cross sections range from 3.53 to 2.06 b for Ca and from 3.23 to 1.98 b for K.
