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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.
William T. Sha
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 3 | June 1971 | Pages 291-300
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20162
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A generalized model is presented for computing local void distribution, both radial and axial, in a light-water-moderated reactor channel. This model assumes that steam bubbles can be treated as free particles; thus, the continuity equation can describe the bubble motion. The model presented is considered to be particularly suitable for computer programming. It explicitly and simultaneously computes heat balance and conservation of mass, as well as void distribution. Furthermore, it provides sufficient flexibility to adjust constants in the equation so that any desired calculated void distribution can be obtained. Three existing pertinent void models constitute special cases of the proposed model.