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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.
S. T. Perkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 3 | March 1966 | Pages 284-290
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17640
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The neutron spectrum equations are investigated for regions in which the neutron source includes both volume and surface components. The results are thereby applicable to reflected cores and reflector regions. The spectrum is analyzed in the volume-integrated P1 approximation. The difference from the corresponding bare-core relations is an additional source, plus the redefinition of the leakage parameter. It is shown, with the approximation of diffusion theory, that the leakage parameter is always nonpositive. Several simplified forms are also developed for this term. A numerical calculation is presented to show the details of the procedure, and the results are compared to a multiregion analysis.