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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.
D. J. Donahue, R. A. Bennett, D. D. Lanning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 184-186
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29088
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The rate of neutron absorption in several gold and copper samples has been measured in the PCTR for two different configurations of the fuel and moderator. From these rates, and the corresponding cadmium ratios, the ratio of copper to gold absorption rates for thermal neutrons, and therefore the ratio of the thermal-neutron absorption cross section of copper to that of gold, has been determined. For a value of σAU (0.0253 ev) = 98.8 ± 0.3 barns, the result σCu (0.0253 ev) = 3.79 ± 0.04 barns is obtained.
