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DOE, General Matter team up for new fuel mission at Hanford
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday announced a partnership with California-based nuclear fuel company General Matter for the potential use of the long-idle Fuels and Materials Examination Facility (FMEF) at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
According to the announcement, the DOE and General Matter have signed a lease to explore the FMEF's potential to be used for advanced nuclear fuel cycle technologies and materials, in part to help satisfy the predicted future requirements of artificial intelligence.
Bruno Bärs
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 1 | October 1967 | Pages 104-108
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17247
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The power level fluctuations of the TRIGA Mark II reactor at Otaniemi, Finland have been measured at a power of 3 W. A compensated ionization chamber was used and the signal was analyzed by utilizing a filtering technique. A simple theoretical model for the power spectral density associated with the neutron noise was fitted to the experimental results in the frequency range 4 to 400 cps by the least-squares sum method. Calculations were made on a digital computer, which gave a β/l-value of 121.4 (units) 1/sec. For a delayed-neutron fraction with β = 0.0073, this implies a prompt-neutron lifetime, l, equal to 60.1 ± 3 μ sec. Noise measurements on TRIGA reactors have not been reported earlier.