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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.
G. R. Hennig
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 514-528
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25489
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It is shown that the production rate of electron traps during fast neutron bombardment of graphite can be determined by comparing its properties with those of chemically doped graphite. A value of 9 × 10−5 trap per equivalent megawatt day unit of reactor bombardment is obtained. This comparison also shows how the scattering of the carriers is affected by bombardment. The validity of the conclusions which are reached depends upon certain assumptions concerning anisotropy and heterogeneity, which are explored in rather considerable detail.