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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.
Martin LeimdÖRfer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 345-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17381
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Monte Carlo calculations have been performed for source energies from 1 to 10 Mev, and normally incident radiation, showing that 90% of the infinite-barrier energy flux albedo is reached with a 10 cm concrete wall. The spectrum of backscattered energy flux is presented for the above sources and wall thicknesses ranging from 5 to 50 cm. An analytical expression, based on a single-scattering approximation, is shown to produce good fits to the Monte Carlo results.