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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.
M. Rajagopalan, H. S. Pruys, A. Grütter, H. R. von Gunten, E. A. Hermes, R. Richmond, E. Rössler, A. Schmid, P. Wydler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 414-419
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26796
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The yields of 27 mass chains in the fission of 235U and the ratio of fast-neutron to thermal-neutron fission yields (the “R” value) of 21 mass chains in the fission of 239Pu induced by fast neutrons (median energy ∼180 keV) have been measured in the reactor PROTEUS. The yields were obtained by a comparison method using gamma-ray spectroscopy. The data show that, in agreement with other authors, yields in the peaks of the mass distribution do not change compared to thermal-neutron-induced fission.
