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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 79 | Number 3 | November 1981 | Pages 265-268
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The 197Au(n,γ) cross section was measured as a function of neutron energy by time of flight. The data agree well with recent results averaged over limited energy regions but fall slightly below the ENDF/B-V evaluation at most energies. The most prominent structure seen is attributed to competition cusps of several percent amplitude just above the thresholds for inelastic neutron scattering to 5/2+ levels in 197Au.