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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. J. Howerton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 3 | March 1977 | Pages 438-454
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26983
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A method for predicting (Z,A,En) is developed and tested against available experimental data for isotopes ranging from 229Th to 249Cf The only input values required are the charge and mass numbers (Z and A) and the binding energy of the last neutron in the (A + 1) nucleus. For incident neutron energies greater than the threshold of multiple-chance fission, the method is extended by accounting for each fission process separately. This method is an extension of work reported by the author in 1963 and 1971.