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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.
G. P. Lamaze, R. A. Schrack, O. A. Wasson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 2 | November 1978 | Pages 183-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27288
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The shape of the 6Li(n,α)T cross-section curve has been measured from 3- to 800-keV neutron energy. The neutrons were produced by the National Bureau of Standards 140-MeV Linac, and the measurements were made along the 200-m above-ground drift tube. The neutron flux was monitored by a 61-cm-long hydrogen gas proportional counter giving a direct ratio of the 6Li(n,α) cross section to the H(n,p) cross section. The 6Li(n,α) events were detected in a 0.5-mm-thick piece of 6Li glass (NE-912). The results were normalized to ENDF/B-V in the region from 10 to 100 keV. Overall uncertainties in the measurement are ∼2% in the range from 10 to 400 keV. Error analysis and comparisons with previous measurements are given.