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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.
Shunsuke Uchida, Masao Kitamura, Shunichi Miyasaka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 155-159
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27134
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Experiments were undertaken to determine the distribution of neutron flux on the core support grid plate of liquid-metal fast breeder reactors by using a semimockup of the grid-plate shield consisting of carbon-steel and aluminum slabs. The experiments were calculated with a conventional calculational procedure containing the TRD-3 two-dimensional removal diffusion code. It was demonstrated that the calculated radial distribution of the fast neutron reaction rates of 115In(n,n′)115mIn agreed with the measured values within a factor of 2.