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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.
W. R. Martin, J. R. Weir
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 167-177
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27871
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The creep ductilities of irradiated Hastelloy N at 650°C have been determined at several neutron exposures. Elevated-temperature irradiation embrittlement greatly reduces the stress-rupture strength as measured in postirradiation uniaxial stress tests. The reduction in ductility to values as low as 0.4% is due to an irradiation effect related to the process of intergranular fracture. Intergranular cracks, once formed, propagate with greater ease in the irradiated alloy as compared with a sample exposed to a lesser radiation exposure.