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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. N. Blomquist, E. M. Gelbard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 3 | March 1983 | Pages 380-384
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17571
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Several methods for sampling the Klein-Nishina distributions for scattered photon secondary energy are studied to determine an optimum sampling technique useful from 1 keV to 100 MeV. A commonly used approximate inverse method is evaluated for accuracy by analytically comparing the exact and approximate sampling distributions. This method, several rejection methods, and an exact direct sampling method are evaluated for computing speed on several different computers.