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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.
Yasuo Hirose (Retired)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 787-798
The present research intends to investigate some chemical aspects of Molten-Salt Reactors (MSR) specifically in TRU burning application taking a particular interest in the facts under which being misled carelessly by immaturity of the MSR technology as exclusively established for thorium utilization. Topics include density assumption of fuel salt with high actinide concentration; chemical effect of PuF3 fission comparing with that of UF4; suspected validity of the fuel slat as a solution of FLiNaK and an alternative fuel salt constitution procedure. Chemical processes applicable to on-line, front-end and back-end of the Fast Molten Salt Reactor with U-Pu fuel cycle (FMSR-U/Pu) are discussed in encouraging and stimulating its development.