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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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Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A22595
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Three-region restructured fuel, with given thermal characteristics, may be represented by an effective conductivity integral function Y(T). For any fuel surface temperature Ts and linear heat generation rate q, the maximum fuel temperature Tv is found from the relation Yv - Ys = q. Region radii and molten fuel fraction appear in the groups qR2/R and qF as functions of Yv - Ye.