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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.
Marion L. Stelts, John D. Anderson, Luisa F. Hansen, Ernest F. Plechaty, Calvin Wong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 1 | October 1971 | Pages 53-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22335
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The validity of the neutron Monte Carlo transport code, SORS, has been established for the transport of fast neutrons through water by comparing the measured time spectra of neutrons from spherical water targets of 1.0 and 1.8 mean-free-paths radii with the calculations. The energy degradation and spatial spreading of a beam of 14-MeV neutrons through a thickness of water comparable to the thickness of a human body were calculated for use in the design of experiments to treat cancer tumors with 14-MeV neutron beams. For use in shielding applications, further calculations have also been made of the transport of neutrons from an isotropic source of 14-MeV neutrons located at the center of spherical water shields having radii from 0.5 to 7.0 mfp.