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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.
H. D. Warren, C. T. Rombough, T. G. Pitts, M. L. Gilbert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 4 | December 1984 | Pages 486-494
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18367
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Two assemblies of self-powered in-core detectors have been tested in the Oconee 2 pressurized water reactor for more than 1 yr. The assemblies contain both prompt-responding hafnium and delayed-responding rhodium detectors. Four hafnium detectors are paired with four rhodium detectors in each assembly. The purpose of the experiment is to define the characteristics of the prompt and delayed detectors operating together in pairs. Data from the experiment show that the prompt detectors need to be calibrated on-line and that the rhodium detectors paired with them can be used to make the calibrations. The response of the hafnium detector to a reactor scram is given.