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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.
E. Gelbard, J. Davis, J. Pearson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1959 | Pages 36-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A27327
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The spherical harmonics approximation of Ith order, applied to the transport equation in slab geometry, leads to 2l + 1 coupled first order differential equations. These may be transformed into (2l + 1)/2 second order differential equations similar, in form, to the few-group diffusion equations, and amenable to solution by well-known iterative techniques. The double-Pl equations of Yvon may be manipulated and solved in the same manner. This article describes an IBM 704 code which makes use of such a method. Some of the results obtained with the code are discussed, and machine times for typical problems are compared with times required to solve the same problem by the discrete ordinate methods.