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Amazon provides update on its Washington project with X-energy
A year ago this month, Amazon led a $500 million investment in X-energy, alongside Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the University of Michigan, and other investors. In addition to that financing, Amazon pledged to support the development of an initial four-unit, 320-MW project with Energy Northwest in Washington state.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 1 | September 1973 | Pages 95-106
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23292
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A formalism is developed for full exploitation of a gas tag system used for locating failed fuel elements in fast reactors. Based on the measured gas tag ratios detected in an actual failure, the method assigns quantitative probabilities to the various combinations of failures which can occur. Both the failure of a single fuel element and the simultaneous failure of two elements are treated in detail.
