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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 41 | Number 2 | August 1970 | Pages 155-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20703
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Information from the Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF/B) has been used to construct energy-exchange kernels describing the energy transfer probabilities between neutrons and material lattice atoms. The kernels correctly incorporate all the available information on elastic scattering and inelastic scattering contained in ENDF/B. Their use removes much of the uncertainty in the calculation of primary-recoil spectra. Primary-recoil atom spectra for several elements in different reactor spectra have been generated. The influence of inelastic scattering on the recoil spectra is discussed. Results obtained with the ENDF/B data are compared with previously published information.