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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.
R. E. Leuze
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 448-451
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17397
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Transuranium elements will be produced by long-term neutron irradiation of Pu-Al alloy to produce Pu242, Am243, and Cm244, which will be irradiated in the High Flux Isotope Reactor to produce berkelium, californium, einsteinium, and fermium. Methods based primarily on ion exchange and solvent extraction are outlined for processing both irradiated Pu-Al alloy and irradiated HFIR targets. The calculated content of irradiated Pu242 and Cf252 HFIR targets is given.
