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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.
D. L. Douglass
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 3 | March 1961 | Pages 391-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25892
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An evaluation of tensile, creep, hot hardness, fabrication, and corrosion data for Nb-V and Nb-Zr alloys had been made to assess the merits and limitations of each alloy system for possible use as structural components of boiling water reactors. Niobium-vanadium alloys possessed far superior creep properties, equivalent tensile and hardness properties at elevated temperature, and superior corrosion behavior in high-temperature steam and water. With the exception of a higher neutron capture cross section, Nb-V alloys appeared to offer better potential for conditions existing in boiling water reactors.