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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 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 128-132
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27279
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We measured the fission cross-section ratio of 241Pu relative to 235U over the neutron energy range from 1 keV to 30 MeV at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 100-MeV Linac. We used ionization fission chambers and the time-of-flight technique to take data simultaneously over the entire energy range, obtaining a measurement of the shape versus the neutron energy of the ratio accurate to ±2% over most of the energy range. Two independent methods determined the normalization of the shape measurement.