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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.
Paul A. Roys, Kalman Shure
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 4 | October 1958 | Pages 536-545
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A28830
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The gamma-ray dose rate and the fast neutron flux have been measured in air from a source of water shortly after irradiation in the Materials Testing Reactor. Gamma rays from N16 and neutrons from N17 have been detected. From the measurements and the known geometry, the cross sections for the O16 (n, p) N16 and the O17(n, p) N17 reactions averaged over the fission neutron spectrum have been deduced to be 0.019 mb and 0.0052 mb, respectively. The results are compared with other measured values and theoretical estimates.
