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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.
Jean Paquette, Robert J. Lemire
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 1 | September 1981 | Pages 26-48
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19040
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Potential-pH diagrams are reported for uranium and plutonium in water containing carbonate, chloride, fluoride, phosphate, sodium, and sulfate ions at 25, 100, and 200°C Complexation was considered in deriving the diagrams and the potential-pH relationships were calculated for various total dissolved ion concentrations. The diagrams are used to analyze the general features of the thermodynamic behavior of uranium and plutonium in geological systems and to help identify processes that might be expected to occur in the vicinity of a deep underground vault for nuclear fuel waste.