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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.
J. H. Dave, J. J. Egan, G. P. Couchell, G. H. R. Kegel, A. Mittler, D.J. Pullen, W. A. Schier, E.Sheldon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 2 | October 1985 | Pages 187-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A27441
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Neutron inelastic scattering from 232Th has been studied for states above 700 keV in excitation using the (n,n'γ) technique at incident energies in the 0.77- to 2.10-MeV range. The gamma-ray measurements employing a high-resolution Ge(Li) spectrometer show 74 transitions from 46 levels above the first excited state. Gamma-ray branching ratios and production cross sections have been determined. Inferred level cross sections are compared to compound-nucleus statistical model calculations, which generally represent the measurements fairly well at lower incident energies but become increasingly discrepant at higher bombarding energies, and to the ENDF/B-V evaluation.