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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.
R. Ofek, A. Tsechanski, A. Goldfeld, G. Shani, A. E. Profio, J. J. Wagschal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 239-257
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23723
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The Ben Gurion University 15-MeV“clean” neutron field is used to investigate various problems encountered in fusion reactor blanket designs. In particular, the adequacy of the 7Li tritium production neutron cross section was analyzed by comparing measured neutron energy spectra in a lithium tank with detailed Monte Carlo calculations. It is seen that new evaluations are needed that would consider the various mechanisms that contribute to tritium production in 7Li and determine the shape of the secondary neutron energy spectrum. It is also found that uncertainties in the alignment of the source-target-detector configuration in integral experiments may result in considerable discrepancies in the analyses of such experiments.