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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 135-144
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23710
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An improved technique for inferring the eigenvalue separation, which is important in spatial stability analysis, was developed using the noise coherence function. It was applied to fast reactor critical assemblies of various sizes and compositions that exhibited a wide range of spatial decoupling. In each experiment, four lithium-glass detectors were used to measure noise coherence functions. Various ratios of the coherence functions were used to obtain the first two modes of separation considering higher modes and variations in detector efficiencies. The eigenvalue separation obtained by noise analysis agreed well with calculation.