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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 65 | Number 3 | March 1978 | Pages 540-544
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27184
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Neutron heating sensitivities to cross-section uncertainties were calculated in a controlled thermonuclear reactor (CTR) blanket. For this purpose, the well-known generalized perturbation methods were used. The CTR blanket chosen was representative of current design specifications. Sensitivity profiles were generated for neutron heating in 6Li, 7Li, iron, and niobium to their respective cross sections. Fairly high changes in the neutron heating can be produced by variations in individual cross sections.