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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.
C. B. Mills
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 3 | March 1961 | Pages 377-390
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25891
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By use of the Los Alamos transport code, a parametric set of criticality conditions for one-dimensional geometries of light water solutions of the fissionable materials U233, U235, and Pu239 has been determined. Minimum critical dimensions for slabs and cylinders and critical radius, mass, and volume for spheres as a function of solution concentrations (kg/1) and H/X atomic ratio are shown for bare and light water reflected solutions. Results of experimental studies for critical dimensions are given to support the study.
