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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.
H. Hurwitz, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 1 | July 1959 | Pages 11-17
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25620
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A simplified method is presented for the approximate analysis of reactor start-up incidents. In particular, formulas are given for the inverse reactor period at the time when the power reaches the trip level. General results are derived for the total energy generation in the absence of a scram assuming that the reduction in reactivity is a linear function of the total energy which has been generated.
