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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.
Makoto Okamoto, Yuji Naruse, Kenji Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 187-196
Overview of National Tritium Program | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29745
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The R&D for tritium technology and studies of tritium science in Japan has been carried out in the national institutions (JAERI, PNC and others), in the universities, and in industry. In fusion fuel technology, the technological R&D of tritium processing and handling has been carried out by TPL-JAERI, including collaboration with TSTA (USA) and basic and innovative research conducted by the universities. PNC has conducted R&D and engineering studies in the heavy water quality control system for FUGEN reactor, a heavy water cooled reactor ATR, and in the tritium recovery system for the heavy water coolant. Since the last meeting at Toronto, there are many developments in the above researches which will be summarized here with some results.