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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.
C. A. Anderson, Jr., T. J. Thompson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 474-480
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18766
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Energy spectra of neutrons leaking from the core tank of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology heavy-water-moderated reactor have been measured with a “fast” neutron chopper. The energy range 2 × 10-3 eV to 2 × 105 eV was examined for three different fuel configurations. The spectra are fairly well described as the sum of a Maxwell-Boltzman distribution and a dE/E slowing-down distribution. The energy resolution, ΔE/E, is less than 5% at energies below 100 eV and varies as E½ above 100 eV, while the probable error in current, ΔJ/J, is less than 10% at all energies.