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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.
K. Serdula, J. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 1 | May 1965 | Pages 40-50
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19761
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The neutron diffusion and integral scattering properties of graphite have been measured by the pulsed-neutron-source technique. Measurements were performed on assemblies with geometric bucklings from 0.0036 to 0.0151 cm−2. The time of attainment of asymptotic neutron-energy spectra was determined from transmission measurements. Results from these latter measurements indicated that the minimum thermalization time, for the assemblies investigated, was ≈ 2 msec. Asymptotic ‘average’ neutron velocities, measured both internally and externally, were obtained as a function of assembly size. Results indicated that an asymptotic neutron spectrum did not exist for assemblies with B2 ≈ 0.015 cm−2 at a time 2 msec after the neutron pulse. A value of the diffusion cooling coefficient, C = 45.6 ± 4.7 × 105 cm4/sec was derived from the measured ‘thermal’ neutron decay constants.