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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.
Alain Kavenoky
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 209-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27152
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The CN method of solving the transport equation has been developed at Saclay during the past few years. This method is based on a lemma proved by Placzek; an integral equation is provided for the angular flux at the boundary of the various media, and its kernel is the infinite medium Green's function. Four plane geometry problems are solved in one-velocity theory, with a linearly anisotropic scattering kernel: the albedo for the Milne problem, the extrapolation length for the same problem, albedo and transmission factor for slabs, and the critical thickness for slab reactors. Numerical results are obtained and compared with data computed by reference methods.