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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.
Richard A. Condon, Neil C. Sher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 4 | December 1962 | Pages 327-338
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26239
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A study was conducted to establish the suitability of the gamma attenuation method for measuring void fractions in a parallel rod array. A lucite mock-up was used to evaluate the accuracy of the method; the error was found to vary from 7 to 13% depending upon the measuring method. Data were taken on an air-water system flowing vertically upward at atmospheric pressure, and were found to agree reasonably well with similar data for rectangular channels and round tubes. The results of this study are being used to guide the execution of the 600 psia boiling water, void experiments which are part of the heat transfer development for the Pathfinder Boiling Water-Integral Superheating Reactor.