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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.
C. M. Eisenhauer, G. L. Simmons
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 263-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26739
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Gamma-ray buildup factors in ordinary concrete have been calculated by the moments method. Results for concrete kerma and air kerma are tabulated for source energies from 15 MeV to 15 keV. Parameters are given that allow calculation of the buildup factor by means of a simple analytic expression. Comparisons are made with earlier calculations, and the effects of annihilation radiation are discussed.