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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.
Sagara Akio, Yamanishi Hirokuni, Uda Tatsuhiko, Motojima Osamu, Kunugi Tomoaki, Matsumoto Youji, Wu Yican, Matsui Hideki, Takahasi Shintaro, Yamamoto Takuya, Toda Saburo, Mitarai Osamu, Satake Shin-Ichi, Terai Takayuki, Tanaka Satoru, Fukada Satoshi, Nishikawa Masabumi, Shimizu Akihiko, Yoshida Naoaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 753-757
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963329
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The self-cooling molten-salt Flibe blanket of FFHR is numerically analyzed, resulting the optimum first wall to be as thin as 5mm and the heat flux up to 0.25MW/m2 to be feasible with adopting V-4Cr-4Ti as the structural material. An alternative concept of free surface using a capillary force is shown to be feasible even in helical systems, where a spiral flow is formed and drastically enhances the heat transfer efficiency. The nuclear property of Flibe blanket is modified with increasing Be amount and adopting carbon reflector, resulting the local TBR of 1.3. As an optional technique, 50% enrichment of Li-6 gives the maximum TBR of 1.4.