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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
L. A. Waldman, M. Doumas
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1965 | Pages 439-445
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20555
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Quick and simple comparative tests were conducted to evaluate the loss of ductility of irradiated in-pile stainless-steel pressure tubes. Representative conditions of pressure cycling and geometry were used to determine the bursting pressure and fatigue life of both unirradiated control specimens and sections of an irradiated in-pile tube. Irradiation increases the tensile strength and the low-cycle fatigue life of these stainless-steel tubes when subjected to pressure cycling.
