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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 69 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 375-377
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19955
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The total neutron cross section of 241Am was determined from transmission data obtained at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 100-MeV electron Linac for the neutron energy range from 0.5 to 25 MeV Neutron energies were measured using the time-of-flight technique. The transmission of a 12C sample was measured simultaneously to test the precision of this experiment. The measured 241Am cross section is compared with the evaluated data files, and discrepancies are noted.
