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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.
G. Moraw, M. Schneeberger, A. Szeless
Nuclear Technology | Volume 33 | Number 2 | April 1977 | Pages 174-183
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31775
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Energy analysis has been used to compare the energy investments for construction and operation of a nuclear and a solar power plant, both having the same electrical output. By means of dynamic energy analysis, construction programs for nuclear and solar power were investigated with respect to the necessary energy investment. It turns out that, considering only the energy investment aspect, present-day light water reactors use considerably less energy for their construction and operation than do solar thermal conversion plants.
