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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.
Philip F. Palmedo, John F. Conant
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 3 | June 1969 | Pages 326-335
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18731
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A series of experiments has been performed to study the diffusion of thermal neutrons in Al-H2O plate lattices. Although diffusion perpendicular to the plates could be described by an exponential function, thus defining a diffusion length, such was not the case for diffusion parallel to the plates. Various ancillary experiments support the conclusion that a discrete eigenvalue does not exist for parallel diffusion in such systems. This conclusion is in agreement with the theoretical predictions of Clancy, Durance, and McCulloch, and of Williams.