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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.
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It is proposed to use the (γ, n) reaction for the measurement of the integrated void volume fraction in two phase flow of D2O inside a duct. This method is applicable to different channel geometries, and it is shown to be insensitive to the pattern of void distribution over the cross-sectional area of the channel. The method has been tested on mock-ups of voids in a round duct of 6 mm inside diameter. About 40 mC Na24 was used as a source of gamma rays. The test results show that the maximum measured error in this arrangement is less than 2.5% (net void) for a range of 2.7% to 44.44% actual void volume fractions.