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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.
L. I. Katzin, B. I. Spinrad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 343-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28772
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A description of a fluid-fuel-fluid-absorber thermal reactor for the production of U233 is presented herein, and the conditions for maximum efficiency as a breeder (shortest doubling time) are elaborated. With very little modification of operating conditions and no modifications in the structure, the machine shows promise as an efficient U235-U233 converter, with the possibility also of by-product power. Some of the development work required is indicated. In particular, achievement of high pumping rates for maximum heat transfer and fabrication of very thin-walled zirconium tubing pay large dividends.