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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.
Brother Austin Bernabei, L. B. Borst, V. L. Sailor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 1 | January 1962 | Pages 63-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A25371
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The total neutron cross section of Sm152 has been measured in the energy range from 6.84 to 9.18 ev with the BNL crystal spectrometer using the Be (1231) crystal planes as a monochromator. The resonance at 8.036 ev was fitted to a Breit-Wigner single-level formula by the method of shape analysis. Since the target nucleus is even-even, I = 0, and hence the statistical weight factor g = 1. Consequently all Breit-Wigner parameters can be determined from the total cross section measurements alone. The resonance parameters obtained from the analysis are: E0 = 8.036 ± 0.010 ev, σ0 = 210,000 ± 2000 barns, Γ = 0.201 ± 0.008 ev, Γγ = 0.071 ± 0.010 ev, and Γn = 0.130 ± 0.005 ev.