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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. G. Carpenter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 429-440
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18787
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Reactivity effects of various materials of interest to epithermal and fast reactors have been measured in a series of neutron spectra with median energies of neutrons causing fission ranging from 422 keV to 8.5 eV. An oscillator technique capable of sensitivities of 10−8 Δk was used. In addition, a power-history or ‘reactivity-vs-time’ method has been developed for fast but less sensitive reactivity measurements. It has been used to obtain radial reactivity traverses and rod calibrations and for other routine reactivity measurements.