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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 104 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 112-122
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A new nodal interface diffusion equation is derived by applying the second form of Green’s theorem to the transverse-integrated diffusion equation. By virtue of this integral equation, a unified theory of the nodal interface partial current method and the nodal interface net current or flux method is established. Use of the infinite-medium Green’s function in that equation results in the same interface partial current equation as the nodal Green’s function method. The nodal interface net current equation can be proven to converge and demonstrates a computational efficiency superior to the nodal interface partial current method for standard benchmark problems.