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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.
R. M. Rubin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 221-224
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22399
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The exposure angular distributions above various ring isotropic and disk isotropic 60Co sources have been calculated in a constant density air medium and compared to Monte Carlo calculations and experimental data for the same sources located at the interface between air and ground. The effect of the interface for ring sources is found to be very similar to the expected results for point sources. For disk sources, the interface effects on the exposure angular distribution are presented as a ratio which has a simple exponential dependence on the cosine of the angle. The results for a very large disk (infinite plane isotropic source) yield correction factors to the assumption that earth can be treated as condensed air.