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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.
Edward C. Beahm, Charles A. Culpepper
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 2 | August 1981 | Pages 215-222
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32737
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At 1273 K, the principal products in the reaction of uranium carbides with Cr-Fe-Ni alloys are UNiC2 and the Laves phase U(Fe,Ni,Cr)2. At 973 K, the principal products are UNi5 and (Cr, Fe)7C3. At the lower temperature, reaction with uranium monocarbide is limited by the rate of formation of UNi5. Liquid formation was observed in the UC Type 316 stainless system at 1292 ± 8 K and at 1351 ± 12 K in the UC Inconel 718 system.
