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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.
C. L. Brown, L. E. Hansen, H. Toffer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 358-363
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20014
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Exponential and critical approach experiments have been performed to determine material buddings and extrapolation distances for several hexagonal lattice arrays of 2.1 wt% 235U enriched uranium tubes in light water. Tubes of two sizes were measured—2.33-in. o.d., 1.77-in. i.d.; and 1.38-in. o.d., 0.63-in. i.d. The arrays included clean lattices of uranium tubes; uranium tubes containing lithium aluminate target rods; uranium tubes with adjacent neutron absorbing columns; and two mixed lattices of 0.95 and 2.1 wt% enriched tubes—one with the 0.95 and 2.1 wt% tubes evenly distributed in the lattice, and the other with the 0.95 and 2.1 wt% tubes arranged in alternate rings. These experiments supplement data obtained in 1965 for 1.002, 1.25, and 1.95 wt% enriched uranium tubes. Critical parameters for these lattices, calculated with the HAMMER code, agree reasonably well with the measured results.