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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.
D. M. Hewette, II, W. R. Laing
Nuclear Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | February 1974 | Pages 149-150
Technical Note | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31370
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A technique has been developed for detecting defective SiC layers in silicon carbide-pyrolytic carbon coated fuel particles. The outer coating of carbon is burned off at 800°C, and the particles are pressurized at 1000 lb /in.2 in a mercury porosimeter. Mercury is forced through any defects in the SiC layer and into the porous carbon. The particles are examined by a low-voltage microradiographic technique. Defective particles were detected in some batches of coated fuel particles.
