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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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The interface current method is generally used in supercell codes to accelerate computation of the collision probabilities needed for resolution of the integral neutron transport equation. This method was used to compute all the collision probabilities for a cluster geometry. The resulting complete collision probabilities were then compared with those computed using a direct method. The interface current method was much faster than the direct method for computing collision probabilities, with a loss in precision within the limits of error acceptable for reactor design calculations.