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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.
L. B. Prus, E. S. Byron, F. O. Von Plinsky, S. W. Porembka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 3 | September 1959 | Pages 167-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25656
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A study of the extrusion and fabrication characteristics of various titanium-enriched boron dispersions indicate that hot extrusion of uncompacted powders is a feasible method for producing these materials. Tensile and impact properties of dispersions containing 2.43, 3.4, and 3.8 w/o B10 show a decrease with increasing B10 concentration. Irradiation studies on these materials revealed that internal cracking results after thermal neutron exposures of approximately 4.6 × 1020 nvt and higher. Tensile properties of the dispersions were related directly to the exposure and resulting structure, however, no correlation was found between exposure and impact properties of these materials.