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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 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 74-87
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23808
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Partial derivative derivation of isothermal multicomponent mixtures needed for the development of universal models of multiphase multicomponent flows is presented. The equations of state and the derivative approximations as functions of temperature and pressure for the elementary mixture constituents are assumed to be known. Two kinds of multicomponent mixtures are investigated: gas mixtures and mixtures of liquid and microscopic solid particles of different chemical substances homogeneously mixed within the liquid. In addition, one component liquid-gas and a solid-liquid equilibrium mixture is considered.