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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.
B. A. Pint, J. Jun, E. Cakmak, D. J. Sprouster, N. Olynik, L. L. Snead
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 761-765
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1898305
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A series of monometallic thermal convection loops (TCLs) has been conducted to determine the maximum temperature where FeCrAl alloys have compatibility with eutectic lead lithium (Pb-Li) for a dual-coolant fusion blanket. Pre-oxidizing commercial alloy APMT (Fe-21Cr-5Al-3Mo) for 2 h at 1000°C to form a surface α-Al2O3 layer was very effective in reducing the mass loss of specimens in the hot and cold legs of the most recent TCL that was operated for 1000 h with a peak temperature of 700°C. However, unlike previous experiments, the postexposure room temperature ductility of many of the APMT specimens was degraded to <10% total elongation, and many of the specimens at the highest temperature (>680°C) were severely damaged or were not recovered. Wide-angle X-ray scattering found that the pre-formed α-Al2O3 scale transformed to a mixture of trigonal and tetragonal LiAlO2. The overall results suggest that the maximum temperature for FeCrAl is limited to <700°C.