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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. Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 3 | November 1965 | Pages 238-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19557
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The ability to interpret measured (n, 2n) cross sections by the statistical model of nuclear reactions has been tested. Good agreement was observed for 22 nuclei having mass numbers greater than 30. The statistical model was then applied to nuclei in this mass range to estimate both monoenergetic and fission-spectrum-averaged cross sections. The (n, 2n) reaction in structural materials contributes on the order of +0.1% to the reactor multiplication.