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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.
C. E. Bemis, Jr., J. H. Oliver, R. Eby, J. Halperin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 413-417
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27058
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The thermal-neutron capture cross section and capture resonance integral for 243Cm have been measured in cobalt-monitored reactor irradiations of nearly isotopically pure 243Cm (99.94%) using cadmium filter techniques. The thermal-neutron absorption (capture plus fission) cross section and corresponding resonance integral for 243Cm have also been measured in a separate experiment relative to 248Cm. Values of σ2200(n, γ) = 130.7 ± 9.6, σ2200(n, f) = 609.6 ± 25.9, I(n, γ) = 214.7 ± 20.3, and I(n, f) = 1575 ± 136 b are reported.