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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.
G.R. Edwards, D.K. Matlock, B.A. Eberhard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 937-943
Material Engineering — Fabrication and Testing | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40154
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The embrittlement of 2 1/4Cr-1Mo steel by lithium or lead-lithium liquids can occur when loading conditions and microstructural strengthening effects limit plastic relaxation at points of high stress, and a critical liquid metal induced embrittlement (LMIE) stress is reached. This paper presents the LMIE results of both constant displacement rate uniaxial tensile testing and fatigue crack propagation studies. The temperature for the onset of LMIE susceptibility at a given localized strain rate is shown to be predictable based on a critical value of flow stress, calculated by means of the Zener-Holloman parameter.
