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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 125 | Number 3 | March 1997 | Pages 371-375
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The parameterized formulas of isomeric cross-section ratios, including two adjustable parameters for (n,2n), (n,p), (n, α) reactions at 14.5 MeV, have been derived with some approximations based on the Hauser-Feshbach theory. By fitting these formulas to available data, these parameters have been extracted, and the systematics behavior of the isomeric cross-section ratios has been studied. More accurate and reasonable predictions than before were obtained by using these parameters and the systematics formulas.