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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.
Kotaro Inoue
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 51 | Number 1 | May 1973 | Pages 1-9
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23252
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper deals with a design optimization system for a fast reactor. The system consists of a nonlinear programming code and the usual design codes. If proper design criteria and an initial estimate of a design point are provided, the optimum design point, subject to those criteria, can be automatically obtained by the system. The system was successfully applied to the optimization and sensitivity analysis of a typical large fast reactor. The results show both the features of the optimized reactor and the effects of variations in the main design criteria on the design.
