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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 94 | Number 2 | October 1986 | Pages 136-144
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A27448
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Total 4He production cross-section measurements have been made for 6Li and 7Li for 15-MeV neutrons. Isotopically enriched samples of lithium metal were bombarded with an intense flux of T(d,n) neutrons from a rotating target neutron source. Following the irradiation, the accumulated 4He was determined by isotope-dilution mass spectrometry. The lithium samples and the incident neutron spectrum were accurately characterized, both by experimental methods and by calculational simulations. The measured 4He production cross sections are 0.512 ± 0.026 b for 6Li and 0.336 ± 0.016 b for 7Li, at an average neutron energy of 14.95 MeV.