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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.
G. W. Dixon, R. Sher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 357-366
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19094
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Thermal neutron spectra have been measured with good spatial resolution within a unit cell in several H2O-moderated natural uranium lattices and in one graphite-moderated lattice. The H2O-moderated lattices had water-to-uranium volume ratios of 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1, with fuel rod diameters of 2.54 cm. Dysprosium-164, 151Eu, 176Lu, and 115In were used as detectors, and both activation ratios and unfolded spectra are compared with THERMOS code calculations. The agreement between the results and the calculations is satisfactory; however, the agreement in the water regions is generally much better than in the fuel regions of the H2O-moderated lattices. In the graphite lattice, the agreement of results with THERMOS calculations using a free gas kernel is poor, while calculations with a crystalline kernel show better agreement.