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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.
Terry Mitchell, Frederick G. Hammitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23352
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The effects upon spherically symmetric bubble collapse of the various thermodynamic parameters, including interfacial nonequilibrium boundary effects, are examined numerically for the case of cavitation or highly subcooled boiling bubbles. Pressures in the surrounding liquid as a function of time and distance are computed. It is shown that the value selected for the evaporation coefficient, not well known experimentally, has a very strong influence on collapse pressures and velocities. The thermal diffusivity of the bubble contents is also significant but somewhat less important. The effect of nonequilibrium temperature or pressure discontinuities at the interface was found negligible for the cases studied.