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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.
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Hideaki Matsuura, Osamu Mitarai, Makoto Nakamura, Yasuyuki Nakao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 630-634
Alternate Concepts & Magnets | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12454
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A scenario to verify the knock-on tail formation by energetic protons and the resulting enhancement of the fractional ion heating by using 3He-containing deuterium plasma is presented. On the basis of the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) model, the knock-on tail formation in deuteron distribution function due to nuclear plus interference (NI) scattering of fusion-produced energetic protons and the resulting modification of the neutron emission spectrum are examined. A recognizable change in the energetic-neutron emission rate due to the knock-on tail formation depending on the external 3He inclusion is shown. Another possible scenario to ascertain the enhancement of ion-heating by using -ray-generating 6Li+D reaction is also presented and discussed.
