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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 95 | Number 2 | February 1987 | Pages 116-127
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20422
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Neutron emission spectra from targets bombarded by 318-, 590-, and 800-MeV protons are analyzed. At each emission angle the major features of the emergent neutrons throughout their energy range can be described by the sum of four evaporation terms. The characteristic emission temperatures are approximately the same for eight targets in the mass range of A = 12 to 238. The (p,xn) cross section at an incident proton energy of 590 MeV varies very nearly as A4/3. A parameterized model with parameter covariances is developed that describes for the above proton energy range the essential features of neutron emission spectra including quasi-elastic peaks. Calculation times are very short, of the order of 1 s.