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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 15 | Number 2 | February 1963 | Pages 187-196
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-4
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Part II extends the work of Part I on probability distribution of power during a low source re-actor startup, by using a mathematical model in which the assumption of zero neutron lifetime is no longer made. This permits calculations to be carried to and beyond prompt critical, and consequently permits consideration of faster reactivity insertion rates than could be handled by the methods of Part I. A computational technique for the finite lifetime model is described. Numerical results are given, which extend the results of Part I.