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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.
Ralph M. Singer, Jerry L. Gillette, Gerald H. Golden, Dale Mohr, Wayne K. Lehto, Charles C. Price, John I. Sackett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 75-82
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27006
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The Experimental Breeder Reactor II is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor and is designed to operate at a thermal power of 62.5 MW and an electrical generation rate of 20 MW. In a continuing program devoted to the understanding of the thermal, hydraulic, and neutronic behavior of this reactor under both normal and off-normal operating conditions, a series of steady-state natural convection tests have been conducted. Instrumentation utilized for the control and observation of the reactor behavior during these experiments included both the normal plant sensors as well as those located in-core within a special fueled subassembly. The results of these measurements have been compared to the predictions of an analytical model of the entire primary heat transport circuit and satisfactory agreement was obtained.