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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 1 | October 1979 | Pages 110-113
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19314
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Perturbation theory is a collection of methods for determining the effect of a known perturbation on a given physical system. Inverse perturbation theory is defined as a collection of methods for determining the nature of the perturbation itself. This Note presents one method related to inverse perturbation theory, where calculated and measured parameters in one system bound the expected measured parameters in a related system subject to the same uncertainties as in the first system. The method is applied to reactor theory problems.