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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.
M. P. Fricke, J. M. Neill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 4 | April 1973 | Pages 392-397
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A26576
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The neutron spectrum and criticality of ZPR-3 Assembly 11 have been calculated using estimated cross sections for the mU(n, γn’) reaction. Inclusion of this reaction markedly improves agreement between the measured and calculated spectra, and it also decreases the calculated criticality by 0.62%. This change in criticality can be compensated for by lowering the 238U capture cross section from the ENDF/B-III values to those of a recent microscopic measurement. These and other ramifications of the (n,γn’) reaction in fast reactor assemblies are discussed.
