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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.
A. H. Futch, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1959 | Pages 61-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A27332
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The ratio,δ, of U238 to U235 fissions was measured for various natural uranium fuel assemblies in D2O-moderated reactor lattices. Fuel element types studied included clusters of from one to nine 1-in. rods, tubular assemblies, and plate assemblies. The measurements were made by comparing the activations of depleted and natural uranium foils after irradiating them inside the fuel assemblies in an exponential facility. As a corollary to these experiments, relative decay rates were determined for the gamma activities of the U238 and U235 fission products.