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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.
K. Gopala, B. Rudraswamy, P. Venkataramaiah, H. Sanjeeviah
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 3 | March 1987 | Pages 206-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20450
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The external bremsstrahlung (EB) spectra generated in thick targets by the beta particles of 170Tm are measured using a 4.55- × 5.08-cm NaI(Tl) crystal detector in a good geometry setup. The raw spectra are unfolded using the Liden-Starfelt procedure. The unfolded EB spectra are compared with Bethe-Heitler, Elwert-corrected Bethe-Heitler, Morgan-corrected Bethe-Heitler, and Tseng and Pratt theories. The experimental spectra are found to agree with the theory of Tseng and Pratt up to a certain energy and deviate positively thereafter. The deviation from theory increases with increasing energy and atomic number of the target material.
