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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.
F. L. Lisman, W. J. Maeck, J. E. Rein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 2 | November 1970 | Pages 215-219
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19501
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Based on an examination of thermal and fast reactor fission yield data, specific fission products are recommended as burnup monitors for total fissions in various reactor fuel types and for fractional fissions in 235U-239Pu and 233U-235U reactor fuels. Emphasis is placed on long-lived and stable fission products determined by mass spectrometry. The types of monitors include a single fission product for total fissions and the ratio of two fission product isotopes of the same element both for total fissions and fractional fissions.