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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.
W. Rothenstein, J. Chernick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 5 | May 1960 | Pages 454-457
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25744
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In many instances resonance capture of neutrons can be calculated by one of two basic approximations. The narrow resonance approximation is valid if the practical width is small compared with the maximum energy loss of a neutron in an elastic collision. If the reverse is the case, the absorber atoms may be regarded as infinitely heavy. There are cases of wide, weakly absorbing, resonances however in which neither of these methods is reliable. Examples of these are given. An alternative method for calculating resonance capture for such resonances is presented and compared with Monte Carlo calculations of the capture fraction in bismuth-graphite lattices.