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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.
J. Wolkoff, A. A. Chilenskas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 1 | January 1961 | Pages 71-77
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25868
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Materials capable of trapping alkali metal vapors at temperatures up to 800°C were tested and a number of surface-active mterials proved efficient. A sufficient quantity of Molecular Sieves, activated alumina or activated carbon can be contained in a crucible cover to trap and hold the evolved alkali metal vapors from an EBR-II melt refining furnace charge of 10 kg. The cover design is under development.