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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.
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Solid state nuclear track detectors can be used in various reactor physics experiments to measure fission density distributions and fast- and thermal-neutron flux distributions. The use of a microdensitometer to determine track densities on the surface of irradiated detectors has proven to be very convenient. For fast neutron detection, comparison with activation detectors shows a higher sensitivity for the solid state nuclear track detectors.