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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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The interface current method is generally used in supercell codes to accelerate computation of the collision probabilities needed for resolution of the integral neutron transport equation. This method was used to compute all the collision probabilities for a cluster geometry. The resulting complete collision probabilities were then compared with those computed using a direct method. The interface current method was much faster than the direct method for computing collision probabilities, with a loss in precision within the limits of error acceptable for reactor design calculations.