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DOE awards $2.7B for HALEU and LEU enrichment
Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced that three enrichment services companies have been awarded task orders worth $900 million each. Those task orders were given to American Centrifuge Operating (a Centrus Energy subsidiary) and General Matter, both of which will develop domestic HALEU enrichment capacity, along with Orano Federal Services, which will build domestic LEU enrichment capacity.
The DOE also announced that it has awarded Global Laser Enrichment an additional $28 million to continue advancing next generation enrichment technology.
G. Schulze, H. Würz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 663-670
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31875
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A determination of fissile material concentration in high-level radioactive solutions can be accomplished by measuring the source multiplication of an external neutron source. Computer calculations and laboratory experiments were used to demonstrate the applicability of the method to fissile material solutions containing unknown quantities of homogeneous neutron poison materials. A relation between the fissile material concentration Cfiss and the quantities thermal and epithermal leakage neutron fluxes measured with 235U fission chambers is derived. The accuracy obtained using a 252Cf neutron source of source strength 5 × 108 n/s, a measuring time interval of 20 s, and assuming Cfiss to be at least twice the minimum detectable concentration is better than 30%. This is adequate for application of the method for process control of pulsed columns in reprocessing plants.