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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.
Norman Ketzlach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 3 | September 1959 | Pages 187-190
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25658
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The maximum safe limits on the storage and shipment of slightly enriched fuels may be increased by the addition of fixed neutron poisons. A theoretical study, verified by experiment, is presented to show that an infinite amount of O.95 per cent U235 enriched fuel will be subcritical when the fuel elements are encased in tubing at least ⅛ in. thick. The fuel elements considered are solid rods of 1.34-in. diameter and tubular elements of 1.37-in. O.D. and O.48-in. I.D. Without the tubing it is possible to make as little as four tons of the fuel elements considered critical.