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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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The multigroup diffusion equation has been solved by taking buckling to be energy dependent. This form of the solution has been justified in the paper. It has two distinct advantages: (a) the decay constant values so obtained are closer to the experimental results as compared to the ones obtained by taking constant buckling, and (b) it gives a decay constant dependent on the shape of the assembly.