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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. Levy, A. R. Fritsch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 3 | March 1959 | Pages 143-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25572
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The streaming potential technique has been used to obtain the zeta potentials of ThO2 in HCl, HI, HNO3, and H2SO4 of various concentrations. The data are correlated with observed settling rates and tendency toward ThO2 colloid formation. Streaming current measurements were made on type 304 stainless steel samples. Evidence is presented to demonstrate the significance of the zeta potentials of the ThO2 and the stainless steel in the formation of thin films and thick cakes of ThO2 on the stainless steel.
