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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. E. Maerker and F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 423-433
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18281
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Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out to determine the fast-neutron dose-rate distributions along the center lines of both a straight and a two-legged square concrete duct for a particularly demanding source geometry. The calculations incorporated doubly differential dose-albedo data for concrete which were previously reported. A comparison of the results of the calculations with those from a geometrically similar experiment shows good agreement, and places on a firm foundation the concept of treating the fast-neutron duct transmission problem as a reflection phenomenon at a point that is describable by the differential albedo properties of the walls.