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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 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 349-357
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28584
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A semiempirical method based on the evaporation and exciton models is developed to calculate continuum gamma-ray spectra and multiplicities from neutron-induced reactions. The calculation results are in good agreement with the available measured data.