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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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Numerical results for the time asymptotic neutron flux in a pulsed experiment, and for the thermal utilization factor in an infinite slab lattice, are derived using invariant imbedding. An isotropic separable kernel is assumed. It is shown that, though the neutron spectrum is strongly dependent on the shape of the kernel and thus cannot hope to be accurately predicted with a separable kernel, the qualitative behavior is in good agreement with previous computations. Moreover, some other features (the angular dependence of the flux, and the thermal utilization factor) are shown to have less dependence on the thermalization model, and are thus accurately predicted.