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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.
Stanley H. Levinson, Robert S. Enzinna, B&W Nuclear Service Company, P.O. Box 10935, Lynchburg, Virginia 24506-0935
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 1 | July 1990 | Pages 102-111
Technical Paper | Safety of Next Generation Power Reactor / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34446
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The Babcock & Wilcox and United Engineers and Constructors advanced light water reactor (ALWR) design has features that will provide enhanced safety, reliability, and design margin over the current generation of commercial nuclear power plants. The B-600 ALWR is a 600-MW(electric) two-loop pressurized water reactor (PWR). A probabilistic analysis has been performed to provide early feedback to the designers to enhance the reliability of the safety systems. Based on this information, the ALWR designers have eliminated most of the features that dominate the risk profile in conventional PWRs. This has resulted in the calculated core damage frequency for the ALWR being better than the design targets.
