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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 4 | Number 4 | October 1958 | Pages 530-535
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The relative reactivity worth of several B10F3 gaseous coupons has been determined at pressures up to 4.2 atmospheres. These worth values are compared with equivalent B10 loading as B4C dispersed (100 mesh or less) in stainless steel. Gaseous boron is more than five times as effective as the dispersed boron due to particle self-shielding. Bulk self-shielding becomes important only at high concentrations. The gaseous coupons are also compared with two alloy coupons (normal B10 and enriched B10).