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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.
M. M. R. Williams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 2 | November 1967 | Pages 188-198
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17330
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A formalism based upon the source-sink method of Horning, Feinberg, and Galanin has been developed which predicts the neutron noise spectrum, and time-dependent correlation function, in heterogeneous reactor systems. The method is applied to two problems in infinite plane geometry: the infinite lattice, and detector perturbations. In the lattice problem, it is shown that the simple, homogeneous theory will only be valid when the lattice spacing is very much less than the attenuation length of a neutron wave in the pure moderator. The flux depression in the neighborhood of a neutron detector is found to introduce significant corrections to the noise spectrum.