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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 102 | Number 4 | August 1989 | Pages 423-427
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23652
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The 240Pu spontaneous fission half-life has been measured using neutron coincidence counting with an enriched source. The measurement was made using a large liquid scintillator tank, and a value of 1.12 × 1011 yr ± 1.6% was obtained.
