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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 32 | Number 2 | May 1968 | Pages 166-177
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Calculations are made of the radiation flux of gamma rays that have originated from a point isotropic source and have been singly scattered in the air lying beyond a plane interface. Calculations are made in the limit that the source-detector separation distance is small compared to a mean-free-path in air. These results are interpreted in terms of an image source. The results, combined with earlier calculations of the radiation flux reflected from a condensed medium, such as ground, predict the effect of the ground-air interface on radiation fluxes in air near the interface. The results are extrapolated to source-detector separation of the order of a mean-free-path by using infinite-medium buildup factors. Comparisons with experiment show that the model produces results that are in qualitative agreement with experiment.