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Urenco USA marks enrichment milestones
Urenco USA has highlighted the completion of a successful year of advancing nuclear fuel supply in the U.S. by achieving two new milestones this month: The first production of enriched uranium above 5 percent uranium-235, and the startup of the company’s next cascade of centrifuges as part of its capacity installation program.
Norman P. Klug, P. F. Zweifel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 6 | June 1960 | Pages 541-544
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25763
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Calculations are made of the infinite multiplication factor in natural uranium dioxide lattices employing mixtures of light and heavy water as a moderator. The three parameters varied in the study are (a) the metal-to-water volume ratio, (b) pin diameter, and (c) light-to-heavy water atomic ratio. Maxima in plots of K∞ vs hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio indicate that such H2O + D2O mixtures would prove advantageous in certain cases. However, in these cases, slight fuel enrichment might be required.