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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. A. Halbleib, Sr., M. R. Scott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 37 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 271-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20687
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Extensive calculations have been carried out for neutron production from the 3H(d,n)4He, 3H(p,n)3He, and 2H(d,n)3He reactions using hydrated titanium targets. Both thin and totally stopping targets have been considered for ion energies up to 5 MeV. By using the appropriate ion energy, production angle, and reaction, and allowing an energy spread of 10%, it is found that one can obtain neutron current densities of the same order of magnitude with energies from 0 to 22 MeV except for the gap between 8 and 12 MeV. Above 1 MeV variation of all pertinent neutron production characteristics with target loading ratio are found to be essentially the same regardless of reaction type, ion energy, or production angle. Total neutron yields are also calculated along with an example neutron-energy spectrum.