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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.
G. Bitelli, R. Martinelli, F. V. Orestano, E. Santandrea
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 270-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17477
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The results of critical experiments, performed with organic-moderated platetype assemblies containing uranium enriched to 90% in 235U, in the zero-power reactor ROSPO, are reported. Several cores, differing in critical radius (19.5 to 47.5 cm) and in the ratio of uranium-to-stainless-steel plate number, have been investigated. The comparison with the reactivities calculated by a standard two-group calculation procedure shows an overestimate of the eff's (up to 1.95% for the smallest critical core) with a systematic dependence on the core radius. A satisfactory agreement is found for large-size cores (R ≥ 40 cm). It is shown that simple calculational improvements, such as a four-group evaluation of the nuclear constants, and a more detailed treatment of core-radial reflector interface zone, lead to a homogeneously good agreement (within 0.25% ) over the whole range of core dimensions.