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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.
Adnan A. Aswad, G. R. Dalton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 1 | January 1966 | Pages 49-59
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18123
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The one-velocity time-independent neutron integro-differential transport equation is converted into an integral equation by the use of a homogeneous Green's function. The neutron flux, Green's function, and source are expanded in spherical harmonics. The integrations over the angles are carried out by the use of the spherical harmonic orthogonality relation. The net result is a set of coupled integral equations in the flux angular moments. Relations that give the Green's function angular moments are derived for any nonreentrant geometry and all boundary conditions applicable to the neutron transport equation. The conditions for which the scalar flux and some of the flux higher moments can be calculated exactly are discussed. Sample problems of unit slab cells that meet these conditions, are solved. The results are found to be in excellent agreement with those of the DS16 and the TRANVAR codes. A method to estimate the effect of the flux non-zeroth angular moments and the spatial truncation errors on the scalar flux is introduced. A sample problem of a heterogeneous unit slab cell is presented. It is found that the errors in the scalar flux due to neglecting the flux non-zeroth angular moments and the spatial truncation error are each of the order of 0.03% for this problem.