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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 106 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 471-479
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A high-order transport approximation, the SKN method, is introduced for solving the integral transport equation. The method relies on approximating the integral transport kernels by a sum of diffusionlike kernels. The integral equation is equivalent to a set of coupled second-order differential equations for which blackbody and reflecting boundary conditions are established. These SKN equations are solved for benchmark problems. The benchmark problems include one- and two-dimensional homogeneous cell configurations. The solutions using SKN are compared with discrete ordinates and other high-order transport theory solutions.