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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 148 | Number 1 | September 2004 | Pages 50-54
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Possible fluctuation in the delayed neutron yields (DNYs) in the resonance region was predicted on the basis of experimental data of mass distribution of fission fragments at resonances. Analyzed according to the multimodal random neck rupture model of fission, the small variations in the experimental mass distribution were attributed to fluctuations in the branching ratios to different modes of fission. Using the results of analysis of measured data for 235U and 239Pu, the DNYs were calculated for each resonance by the summation method, considering 271 precursors and evaluated data of delayed neutron emission probability. It was found that the DNYs should have local dips for 235U and spikes for 239Pu at resonances.