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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 2 | November 1978 | Pages 189-196
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27289
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The 10B(n,αγ)7Li relative cross section has been measured using the 200-m flight path of the National Bureau of Standards Linac neutron time-of-flight facility. Results are presented from 5 to 700 keV, showing the 5/2- level of 11B at 500 keV. The neutron flux was monitored with a hydrogen proportional counter. The known n-p scattering cross section was then used to normalize the data to obtain a relative cross section. No attempt was made to obtain an absolute normalization experimentally. Overall accuracy is estimated to be better than 3% from 10 to 400 keV.