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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 109 | Number 2 | October 1991 | Pages 113-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A28510
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The ratio of ground-state transitions to excited-state transitions following neutron absorption in 10B has been measured for the 20- to 1000-keV neutron energy region. Face-to-face silicon surface-barrier detectors were used to detect reactions and measure the total energy of the emitted alpha and lithium particles. The Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator was used as a white neutron source, and time of flight was used to determine the neutron energy. The ratio varied from 0.064 at the lowest energies to 0.72 at 920 keV. The current measurements tend to be smaller than the currently accepted values by 10 to 30% in the 100- to 600-keV energy region.