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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.
R.C. Haight, J. Garibaldi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 296-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29057
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A rotating gas cell has been developed as a target for charged-particle beams to produce monoenergetic neutrons via the reactions 1H(t,n), 2H(d,n), 2H(t,n), 3H(p,n), and 3H(d,n). An intense monoenergetic neutron source results when this cell is equipped with a rugged entrance foil and pressurized to 1 MPa, and when a prolific source reaction such as 1H(t,n) is chosen. Neutron flux levels of typically 4 × 109 cm-2 ·s-1 between En = 8 and 12 MeV are being used to measure activation cross sections.