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DOE awards $2.7B for HALEU and LEU enrichment
Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced that three enrichment services companies have been awarded task orders worth $900 million each. Those task orders were given to American Centrifuge Operating (a Centrus Energy subsidiary) and General Matter, both of which will develop domestic HALEU enrichment capacity, along with Orano Federal Services, which will build domestic LEU enrichment capacity.
The DOE also announced that it has awarded Global Laser Enrichment an additional $28 million to continue advancing next generation enrichment technology.
F. M. Mann, R. E. Schenter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 3 | March 1978 | Pages 544-547
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27185
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Uranium-232 production has been calculated in a 1200-MW(e) liquid-metal fast breeder reactor as a function of position, time, and core composition. Whenever thorium is present in the core, large quantities of 232U relative to uranium (∼1000 ppm) are generated, For 232U generated in the blanket, production is on the order of 50 ppm.
