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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. A. Reed, P. R. Crowley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 511-521
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18465
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Rates of sedimentation are reported for concentrated, flocculated aqueous suspensions of thorium oxide at temperatures from 150 to 325°C. Sedimentation tests were carried out in quartz tubes using a motion picture camera to follow sedimentation in the hindered settling region. The observed rates were used as a basis for calculating the effective particle diameters and densities of the sedimenting bodies at the elevated temperatures. The calculations are based on the premise that the slurries are agglomerated and that the nature of the agglomerates varies with temperature.