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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.
Robley E. George, Alexander Sesonske
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 5 | November 1959 | Pages 409-413
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25679
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Using analog computer facilities available at most universities, a boiling water reactor power plant was simulated in order to study for instructional purposes the system response to various deviations from normal operation conditions. The rather idealized model, which was similar to EBWR, was found to be quite stable and to behave qualitatively in a manner expected from boiling reactor experience.