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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.
W. Y. Kato, D. K. Butler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 5 | May 1959 | Pages 320-330
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25604
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A measurement of the Doppler temperature effect has been made in the fast spectrum of a mockup of the EBR-I reactor in ZPR-III. The effect was measured by thermal cycling samples of enriched uranium, natural uranium, and plutonium and detecting the small changes in reactivity. The pile oscillation technique using a resonant detector was employed to measure the small oscillating component of the neutron flux. An upper limit of 0.5 × 10−8 Δk/ΔT was obtained for a 506-gm sample of U235 in the spectrum of an EBR-I mockup, and for a 235-gm sample of Pu239 in a plutonium-fueled assembly of the same configuration. The results for natural uranium were inconclusive.