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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.
Philip F. Palmedo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 3 | June 1968 | Pages 302-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20212
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Measurements have been made of the anisotropy of neutron slowing down in Al-H2O plate lattices. The moments of the slowing down distribution from fission to 1.46 eV were determined in the two characteristic directions at two volume ratios using the point-source, point-detector method. For the 1:1 case, with an Al plate thickness of 0.25 in., the ages parallel and perpendicular to the plates were 65.4 ± 0.8 and 60.8 ± 0.8 cm2, respectively, giving an anisotropy of 1.076 ± 0.02. In the 2:1 (A1:H2O) case, with an Al thickness of 0.50 in., the corresponding values are 100.3 ± 1.5 and 92.5 ± 1.3 cm2, giving an anisotropy of 1.085 ± 0.02. The higher moments were characterized by higher anisotropics.