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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.
Dong H. Nguyen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 3 | November 1974 | Pages 307-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23457
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Transient solutions of a nonlinear nuclear reactor with various temperature-dependent feedbacks are obtained by the modified Newton-Raphson-Kantorovich’s iterative technique. The difference between the first and higher iterates is shown explicitly to be negligible at all times, so that the first iterate represents well the entire solution. It is also shown that the spatial distribution of the neutron flux during transience is dominated by the fundamental mode and that the negligible difference between the second and the first iterates is composed of higher harmonics.—, The maximum flux, the time at which it occurs, and the rate of flux increase are all readily obtained from the solutions. For an increase in reactor buckling and for a positive initial flux disturbance, the neutron flux in a reactor with Newtonian or prompt feedback reaches a finite asymptotic value, whereas that of an adiabatic reactor first rises, then drops off. However, for the same initial conditions, the maximum flux attained in an adiabatic reactor is several fold higher than that of a reactor with Newtonian or prompt feedback.