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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 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 296-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29057
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A rotating gas cell has been developed as a target for charged-particle beams to produce monoenergetic neutrons via the reactions 1H(t,n), 2H(d,n), 2H(t,n), 3H(p,n), and 3H(d,n). An intense monoenergetic neutron source results when this cell is equipped with a rugged entrance foil and pressurized to 1 MPa, and when a prolific source reaction such as 1H(t,n) is chosen. Neutron flux levels of typically 4 × 109 cm-2 ·s-1 between En = 8 and 12 MeV are being used to measure activation cross sections.