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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.
Frank Titus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 609-619
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25495
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Measurements have been made of the distribution of exposure dose in the neighborhood of a plane boundary separating two media of very different density, steel-wool and steel. A point-isotropic Co60 source was located in the vicinity of the boundary. Control measurements were performed in a homogeneous medium of steel-wool. In this way the effect on gamma-ray propagation of an abrupt density change was established. The main result was a progressive decrease of exposure dose near the density-interface compared with the homogeneous medium situation, as the source-detector distance was increased. There is good agreement between the experimental results and corresponding Monte Carlo calculations.