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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.
Yorio Gotoh, Hiroshi Takahashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 2 | August 1971 | Pages 126-140
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20880
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Since the model in which the water molecules form partially “ice-like” clusters explains the thermodynamic properties, the so-called itinerant oscillator model is applied to the motion of water molecules. The assumption is made that the atoms in a molecule receive stochastic forces from the neighboring molecules. The model of water with the stochastic force, of which the correlation functions are a delta function and a simple exponential, is discussed. The generalized frequency distributions of light and heavy water are derived from the model. The incoherent calculations of scattering laws of light and heavy water are compared with measurements. The model predicts well the total scattering cross section of light water, but the average cosine of scattering angle is slightly higher than that of the experiment. Further refinements in the model are discussed.