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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.
Grover Tuck, Harold E. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 3 | June 1970 | Pages 407-413
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20192
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Critical parameters are reported for uranium-solution systems consisting of equally spaced vertical cylinders arranged in a square array resting on the bottom of a 20.3-cm-high square slab tank. Some of these systems were reflected externally. Both the cylinders and the slab contained uranyl-nitrate solution having 490 g of uranium (93.2 wt% 235U)/liter. A system of an 87-cm-high array of sixteen 11.0-cm-diam cylinders on an 11.4-cm-thick solution slab was critical. The slab alone was critical at 12.8 cm. Another critical system was a single 22.4-cm-diam cylinder of effectively infinite height on a solution slab 10.8-cm thick. The 22.4-cm diameter is 93.7% of the critical diameter for an infinite cylinder. Monte Carlo calculations, simulating several typical experimental critical systems, yielded values for keff between 0.958 ± 0.012 and 0.986 ± 0.009.