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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 42 | Number 3 | December 1970 | Pages 257-259
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A21214
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The equivalence relation for the calculation of resonance capture employs a modified rod radius to account for inaccuracies in the Wigner rational approximation of the probability of escape from the rod. In this paper we extend older work to derive a correction to the mean chord length which depends on the peak resonance cross section, the potential scattering, and the rod radius. Such a formula represents a useful compromise between use of the less accurate but computationally convenient equivalence relation and accurate but computationally complex methods. By fitting the radius modifier over a wide range of values, the following representation is found: