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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.
M. Leimdorfer, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., and R. T. Boughner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 151-157
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18259
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Monte Carlo transport calculations have been carried out to estimate the dose travelers in supersonic aircraft will receive from a typical spectrum of solar-flare protons. The dose, from both primary protons and secondary particles, as a function of depth in a tissue slab placed at various depths in the atmosphere, has been obtained. The incident spectrum is broken into eight energy regions and the dose from the incident protons in each of these regions is presented.