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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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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 1 | May 1976 | Pages 87-95
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26860
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Some solutions of the differential equations, which describe an elementary model of the disposition of material carried by a fluid flowing in a pipe, are derived and investigated. The solutions pertain to a variety of assumptions made regarding the initial concentrations of the material in the fluid within the pipe and on the pipe interior surface, and the concentration of the material in the fluid entering the pipe. The means of obtaining some of the model parameters using the derived solutions and measured values of the concentrations of matter on the pipe surface and in the fluid are illustrated.