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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. M. Melandri, F. Premuda, G. P. Prelati
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 2 | October 1974 | Pages 225-233
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A28209
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Calculations of neutron escape probability from a homogeneous isotropically scattering slab of finite optical thickness are reported as obtained by solving exactly the stationary linear integral transport equation for the total flux of monoenergetic neutrons. This is done for both critical and subcritical configurations of the slab under examination, with both constant and variable sources being referred to in the latter configuration. Due to the transport approach here used, the numerical results for the escape probability cover the full range of variation of the mean number of scattered neutrons per collision, cs, i.e., 0 ≤ cs ≤ 1, whereas the half-thickness of the slab considered ranges from 5 or 10 mean-free-paths down to values as small as 10-4 mean-free-paths.