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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.
John C. Allred, David S. Carter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 482-503
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25487
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A theoretical study of the kinetics of a model of the Los Alamos Power Reactor Experiments (LAPRE) has been made through integration of the dynamic equations with the IBM 701 computer. The stability is investigated under various conditions of power demand, rod-induced reactivity changes, and other conditions especially applicable to reactors of the LAPRE type. The results are given in graphical form, along with conclusions as to appropriate conditions of operation.