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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.
R. D. Werner, D. C. Santry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 98-100
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26626
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Deviations from normal mechanical properties observed in stainless steel irradiated by neutrons have been attributed to the production of helium in neutron reactions with nickel. A measurement of the thermal-neutron cross section for the 59Ni(n,α)56Fe reaction has been made in which the alpha-particle emission was determined by a silicon surface-barrier particle spectrometer. The 2200 m/sec cross section obtained is 18.0±1.6 b. This value disagrees with 13.7 ± 0.6 b reported earlier by Eiland and Kirouac.
