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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.
Enzo Coccorese, Raffaele Martone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 514-520
Technical Note | Special Section: Cold Fusion Technical Notes / Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29114
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The way the structure of a fusion device is modeled for electromagnetic computations depends on the scope of the calculation within the limits of the computer tool used. After a brief description of the major eddy effects expected in the Next European Torus (NET), two different schematizations of the NET vacuum vessel structure are compared.
