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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.
J. A. Donovan, D. T. Rankin, J. E. Stuckey, P. K. Smith, W. R. McDonell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1972 | Pages 273-283
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31082
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No reaction was observed between B-type 244Cm2O3 and tungsten, molybdenum, or rhenium matrices in cermet compacts fabricated by cold pressing and sintering at temperatures up to 1850°C. Reaction was observed, however, between the oxide and tantalum matrices sintered as low as 1400°C. Cold pressing and sintering at the highest temperatures produced generally well-consolidated Cm2O3 refractory metal compacts of 85% or greater theoretical density. In compacts produced from well-mixed powders, the oxide was distributed uniformly in the metal matrix with little vaporization loss of Cm2Os.
