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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.
L. Forman, F. A. White
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 1 | April 1967 | Pages 139-143
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18677
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The thermal-neutron capture cross section of 147Sm has been measured by the mass spectrometric determination of the number of 148Sm atoms formed by neutron capture. Samples of high isotopic purity were irradiated in a well-thermalized neutron spectrum for which the time-integrated neutron flux and effective neutron temperature were monitored by the burnup in 149Sm and 157Gd. A thermal-neutron capture cross section value of 75 ± 11 b was obtained from a post-irradiation 148Sm/ 147Sm ratio of 0.00025 ± 8%, at an effective neutron temperature of 127 ± 13°C.
