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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.
J. B. Czirr, J. S. Lindsey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 56-62
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20363
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The ratio of the neutron capture to fission cross section (α) has been measured for 239Pu in the energy range from 100 eV to 30 keV. Neutron time-of-flight techniques were used to obtain data with an energy resolution of approximately 10% at 10 keV. The data yield an average α = 0.80 ± 0.05 between 0.10 and 10 keV for an energy-independent incident neutron spectrum. Also, α data were obtained in the resolved resonance region below 100 eV.
