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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.
W. G. Winn, P. B. Parks, N. P. Baumann, C. E. Jewell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 254-272
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27155
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Unsymmetric perturbations were introduced into the core of a large, critical, heavy-water-moderated, multiregional reactor. The resulting three-dimensional changes in flux level and shape with time were measured. Perturbations included: 1. Free-fall insertion of rods near the reactor center. Each rod contained 235U slugs in the bottom half and lithium slugs in the top half 2. Free-fall insertion of rods into an off-center radial position. Each rod contained 235U slugs in the bottom half and aluminum in the top half. 3. Withdrawal of cadmium control rods from the central 20% of the reactor core. Flux tilts calculated with the TRIMHX code were within 5% of measured flux tilts. TRIMHX provides a three-dimensional (hex-z geometry) solution of the few-group neutron diffusion and delayed precursor equations without feedback. Inputs to the calculations are available in sufficient detail to allow other methods of solution to be tested.