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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.
S. M. Ho, K. C. Radford
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 3 | June 1986 | Pages 350-360
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A16077
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The percent theoretical density, lattice parameter, oxygen-to-uranium ratio, and thermal conductivity of UO2-Gd2O3 burnable absorber fuel pellets were analyzed in terms of the structural chemistry of the cubic fluorite lattice and the chemical behavior of various uranium cations. The sinterability of gadolinia-containing fuel pellets enabled an interpretation to be made of the possible structural models adopted in the system, depending on the sintering conditions.
