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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.
Michael J. Antal, Clarence E. Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 379-383
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27378
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The transport equation governing the deposition of energy carried by fast charged particles in a thermonuclear plasma is derived and solved using a new discrete-ordinates method. This method is shown to be superior to a diffusion theory approximation. Excellent agreement with analytic results for a number of representative test problems has been obtained.
