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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 89 | Number 1 | January 1985 | Pages 79-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17885
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Neutron capture measurements were made on a sample of fission product palladium at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator time-of-flight facility. One hundred thirty resonance peaks were parameterized up to 3.5 keV and the average cross section from 3 to 600 keV was derived. The data exceed the ENDF/B-Vevaluation by ∼25% in the 3- to 300-keV range but drop steeply below it at higher energies where neutron inelastic-scattering competition becomes important. The Maxwellian average cross section for kT = 30 keV is calculated as 1.34 ± 0.06 b, and the dilute resonance capture integral as 108.1 ± 4.3 b.