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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 429-440
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18787
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Reactivity effects of various materials of interest to epithermal and fast reactors have been measured in a series of neutron spectra with median energies of neutrons causing fission ranging from 422 keV to 8.5 eV. An oscillator technique capable of sensitivities of 10−8 Δk was used. In addition, a power-history or ‘reactivity-vs-time’ method has been developed for fast but less sensitive reactivity measurements. It has been used to obtain radial reactivity traverses and rod calibrations and for other routine reactivity measurements.