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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.
Wolfgang Rothenstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 162-171
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29086
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A formula for the escape probabilities of neutrons from the fuel lumps to the moderator and vice versa in a lattice is derived and the validity of simple approximations discussed. These formulas are applied to solve the coupled integral equations for the collision densities in a lattice. First-order corrections to the resonance integral are obtained both for the Narrow Resonance and the Narrow Resonance Infinite Absorber approximations. Numerical results are given for water lattices containing hexagonal arrays of U238 rods, of 0.25 and 0.60 in. diameter, at different water-to-metal volume ratios.