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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.
R. K. Paschall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 3 | November 1965 | Pages 256-263
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19559
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The age of fission neutrons to indium resonance energy (1.46 eV) was measured in mixtures of zirconium and water. Three different volume ratios of metal to water were investigated. The experimental technique of a finite plane fission source with essentially infinite plane detectors was used (which was equivalent to using an infinite plane source with axial detectors). Thus, the theoretical corrections to the measured results were only 1.5% or less. This is the same technique used previously at this laboratory to measure the age in pure water, and comparisons were made with those data. The results indicate a linear variation of the age as a function of metal-to-water ratio.