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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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The delayed-neutron production cross section for the 9Be(n,p)9Li reaction has been measured at incident neutron energies of 14.5 and 14.9 MeV. Cross-section values of 0.053 ± 0.005 and 0.210 ± 0.013 mb, respectively, have been obtained.
