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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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Using the multigroup diffusion equation, a reciprocity relation is established for an arbitrarily shaped body. This relation expresses the flux caused by a source inside the body in terms of the flux resulting from an incident current on that body. In the multigroup case for one-dimensional bodies with flat sources and in the one-group case for rectangular two-dimensional bodies with an arbitrary source, practical formulas are derived from this relation. These give the leakage from a body in terms of its reflection and transmission properties. An advantage of the use of this reciprocity relation is the improved computational efficiency in response matrix calculations.