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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.
F. Schmittroth, R. E. Schenter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 276-291
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27040
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Based on a sensitivity analysis of decay-heat summation calculations, uncertainties are obtained for the calculated decay heat associated with the thermal fission of 235U and the fast fission of 238U and 239Pu. For typical reactor irradiation times and cooling times >100 s, these uncertainties are <3.5% for 235U, 4% for 238U, and 5% for 239Pu. All calculations are based on ENDF/B-IV data.
