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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.
J. G. Goodwin, F. R. Lorenz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 1 | July 1959 | Pages 49-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25626
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Five 30-lb, 4-in. diam iodide hafnium ingots representing material typical of that utilized for the Shippingport PWR were fabricated into strip. Typical tensile, impact, hardness, corrosion test weight gain, electrical resistivity, and chemical analysis values were obtained by testing samples from each strip. The effect of irradiation on the impact strength and hardness of hafnium strip was investigated by subjecting a total of 36 subsized Izod impact specimens to irradiation for two cycles in the MTR. A duplicate group of nonirradiated specimens was used as a control group. The mechanical, physical, and corrosion property measurements for the nonirradiated and irradiated samples showed no physically significant differences attributable to chemical analysis. The impact strength and hardness values for the irradiated specimens showed differences which were attributable to the integrated neutron flux received.