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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. H. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 4 | April 1963 | Pages 468-473
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26464
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A formalism has been given for determining monoenergetic diffusion theory flux peaking at a sharp corner. Advantage is taken of the special behavior of a Bessel function which seldom occurs in the literature. Specific and simple formulas are presented for the peaking, with quantitative guides for their mathematical accuracy when the formulae are known to be approximate.