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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. Takahashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 87 | Number 4 | August 1984 | Pages 432-443
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18509
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A high-energy fission model is incorporated into the nucleon-meson transport code, NMTC, which has been used for predicting high-energy neutron yields from high-energy nucleon and pion collisions with nuclei. The experiments of Vasil'kov et al., Russel et al., and Fraser et al. to measure fissile material production rates from fertile material and to determine neutron production rates, are analyzed. Evaluations are made of the plutonium production rate from the infinite medium uranium block. The calculation including the high-energy fission process gives a more reasonable agreement with the experiments, than the process without high-energy fission. A possible refinement of the model, taking into account the rotational motion in the excited state, is discussed.