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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.
D. E. Wood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 515-522
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18796
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The angular distribution of thermal neutrons was measured at the surfaces of cadmium bars in the graphite core of the Physical Constants Test Reactor (PCTR) at Hanford. The distribution was obtained by activating dysprosium detectors placed at the bottom of small holes in the cadmium. Theoretical calculations of the distributions were made with the optical-path method and with two versions of the SN method: HAPO Program S and the Los Alamos DSN code. All methods agreed to within the 3% standard deviation of the measurements.