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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.
Bal Raj Sehgal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 251-262
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A21090
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Analysis of the nearly homogeneous enriched uranium-graphite critical assemblies described in the preceding paper by Phelps and Weinstock are reported in this paper. These assemblies are characterized mainly by their high leakage rate, and two methods are used for estimating the leakage: 1) the conventional B1 approximation method and 2) the moments method using Monte Carlo calculations for the moments of the slowing down distribution. It is found that the B1 approximation describes the leakage effects quite accurately. Most of the cross sections used in the calculations are from the recent evaluated nuclear data file (ENDF/B). Results of calculations for keff, neutron lifetimes, and foil activation ratios are generally in excellent agreement with the measurements.