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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.
John T. Mihalczo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 557-563
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17621
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A method is described for predicting the neutron multiplication factors of geometrically complicated configurations of unreflected unmoderated enriched- uranium metal from the results of two delayed-critical experiments in simple geometry. The method requires two constants characteristic of the metal. These are the total collision cross section (∑t) and the number of neutrons produced per collision (υ∑f/∑t), which are obtained from the two experiments by using S12 transport-theory calculations with isotropic scattering. These constants, together with the assumption of isotropic scattering, are then used in 05R Monte Carlo neutron-transport calculations to predict the multiplication factors. The method has been tested by predicting the multiplication factors of 21 different delayed-critical assemblies with a wide variety of geometries to within a standard deviation of 1.5%.