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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 578-582
The ICF Laboratory Microfusion Facilty | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39760
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Thegeometrical layout for the 68 beams of the 10 megajoule laser shows the final optics placed at 25 meters from the target (see Fig. 1). The final optic will be a 2–5 cm thick debris shield ($40K each) which will be placed in front of a $200K focussing lens. Each of the 68 beams will deliver 150 kJ of 0.35 µm (3ω) light and will consist of either a 4×4 or a 2×8 array of beamlets, with each beamlet aperture having dimensions of 29 cm × 29 cm. This produces a 3ω energy density at the final optic of 12 J/cm2 average and 225-30 J/cm2 peak.