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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.
G. J. Fischer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 4 | April 1960 | Pages 355-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25729
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The neutron energy spectrum at the center of the dilute fast core of the coupled fast-thermal reactor, ZPR-V has been studied by use of fission chambers having electrodes quantitatively electrodeposited with U234, U235, U236, and U238. Atomic fission ratios found with these four uranium isotopes determine a four-group neutron energy spectrum which can readily be measured as a function of position in the core by use of suitable drive units. The same fission chamber procedure has been used to study the equilibrium neutron energy spectrum in a natural uranium exponential column at Los Alamos. The results of measurements in these two spectra are shown and compared with theoretical predictions. The ZPR-V results are also compared to an analysis of this spectrum made by use of nuclear emulsions for the range 0.2 to 2.2 mev.