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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.
Yuriy Divin and Hitesh Kumar B. Pandya
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 399-405
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-713
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Electron cyclotron emission (ECE) from hot tokamak plasmas is recognized nowadays as a very informative diagnostic of main plasma parameters. Among several instruments developed to measure ECE, only a Martin-Puplett interferometer operates in a broadband frequency range of ECE from 70 to 1000 GHz. To derive the absolute radiation temperature of the plasma, a total measurement system, including front-end radiation collection, a transmission line, and the interferometer, is calibrated using a hot/cold calibration source. It takes a long time to calibrate the ECE system because of the high values of the noise equivalent power (NEP). A new technique, Hilbert-transform spectral analysis, is proposed for ITER plasma ECE spectral measurements. The operation principle, characteristics, and advantages of the corresponding Hilbert-transform spectrum analyzer (HTSA) based on a high-Tc Josephson detector are described. Because of the lower NEP values of the Josephson detector, this spectrum analyzer might demonstrate shorter calibration times than those for the Martin-Puplett interferometer. Because of a principal difference between Fourier and Hilbert transforms, the HTSA might have an additional advantage in retrieving harmonic ECE radiation from a continuous thermal background.
