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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.
E. E. Lewis, R. Pfeffer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 581-585
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17625
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A formalism based on the Dirac chord method is extended from a previous paper to provide an analytical method for determining the properties of small fission-fragment sources of arbitrary convex geometry. The fragment escape probabilities, energy spectra, and energy deposition fractions are determined for spherical, slab, and cylindrical uranium-dioxide sources, using an energy-loss model that contains initial-energy spectra and range-energy relations for 42 fragment species. For comparison, calculations are also made, using two simplified energy-loss models. Finally, a method is given for generalizing the results to sources containing materials other than uranium dioxide.