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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.
D. A. Kottwitz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 4 | April 1960 | Pages 345-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25728
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The energy-dependent diffusion equation in the heavy gas approximation is considered for the case of a medium which has absolute temperature T1 in one halfspace and T2 in the other. The steady-state solution for F(x, E), the neutron flux per unit energy, is obtained in the absence of sinks and sources. Although the formal series solution diverges under certain conditions, it can be “summed” by means of the Euler transformation. Two approximation schemes giving simple analytical results are discussed. Numerical results for flux spectra and the total neutron density are presented for the case in which the temperature ratio is 2:1. The connection between this work and the theory of irreversible processes is briefly indicated.