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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. Ben-David, E. Nardi and M. Pasternak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1964 | Pages 281-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19570
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The fast-neutron spectrum has been measured at several positions in the IRR-1 pool-type reactor using seven activation detectors. The spectrum was calculated by the simultaneous analysis of the data from the seven detectors. Adjacent to the core the spectrum was found to be close to the fission spectrum, with a slight dip between 3 and 4.5 MeV. At increasing distances from the core, the spectrum becomes harder, with a pronounced dip between 3 and 4.5 MeV.