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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.
Charles Yung Fen Chang, John Skears
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 591-602
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31868
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A digital computer simulation program, SOPHT, was developed by the Nuclear Generation Division of Ontario Hydro to assist their operating staff to ensure safe, reliable, and economic power generation. The program is used to predict the transient performance for Canadian deuterium uranium pressurized heavy water reactor (CANDU-PHWR) heat transport and steam supply networks together with their associated control systems. The model was verified by test data obtained in an operating plant. Examples are used to review and demonstrate the applications and contributions of this simulation program to plant operations.