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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.
S. Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 1 | October 1978 | Pages 55-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27270
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Measured neutron emission spectra from 14-MeV neutron-induced reactions in a wide range of nuclei are analyzed by precompound nuclear model calculations. The nuclear model code parameters are adjusted using a least-squares fitting procedure to optimize the agreement between calculation and experiment, but the parameters are constrained to physically reasonable values. A single set of input nuclear constants produces calculated spectra that agree to within 30% of experimental values in over 70% of the cases.
