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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. Aleklett, G. Rudstam
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 74-91
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21405
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The average beta-ray energy has been measured by a direct method for important fission products. For other nuclides, the average beta-ray energy has been determined using experimental data from a study of beta strength functions. In cases for which no experimental data exist, the average energy has been derived using extrapolated beta strength functions.
