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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.
R. L. Childs, T. A. Gabriel, R. A. Lillie
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 73-79
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20735
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Neutronics calculations have been performed to obtain tritium production and heat generation rates for the irradiation of solid tritium breeding materials in the Oak Ridge Research Reactor. Two breeder materials, Li2O and LiAlO2, were considered. Burnup calculations were performed to estimate the amount of 6Li present as a function of time. Both natural lithium and lithium depleted in 6Li were considered. This information is of interest to persons considering or planning similar experiments.