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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.
Jin Ho Song, Hyun-Joung Jo, Kwang Soon Ha, Jaehoon Jung, Sang Mo An, Hwan Yeol Kim, S. T. Revankar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 195 | Number 1 | July 2016 | Pages 29-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-128
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A scaling method is proposed for the design of a reduced-scale experimental facility for testing the performance of a newly proposed filtered containment venting system (FCVS). A full-height facility at prototypic pressure and temperature conditions is chosen to preserve the fundamental physics such as depressurization rate, two-phase mixture level, and scrubbing process. The geometrical similarities in terms of the ratio of the cross-sectional area and geometric and frictional loss coefficient are preserved for each component in the FCVS. Scaling of the number of components in the reduced-scale test facility is suggested using the prototypic components of the FCVS including a venturi scrubber, a cyclone, a metal fiber filter, and a molecular sieve. This approach minimizes scaling distortions. A properly scaled test facility allows testing in a wide range of initial and boundary conditions such that it can predict the full performance of the prototypic FCVS.