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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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B. Y. Kim, H. J. Ahn, J. S. Bak, S. K. Kim, D. W. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 21-28
PFC and FW Materials Issues | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14106
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Korea Domestic Agency (KO-DA) was responsible for the procurement of the ITER blanket modules 1, 2, and 6 in the original procurement allocation. According to the procurement reallocation of the blanket system, Korea will procure the blanket shield block in place of the blanket first wall. Nevertheless, several R&D activities in Korea have been performed including optimization of the hot isostatic pressing (HIP) bonding process between Be/CuCrZr and CuCrZr/SS, the nondestructive test method, fabrication feasibility study, high heat flux tests, and design analysis. Especially, KO-DA participated in the qualification program for the mock-up manufacture and high heat flux tests. Several mock-ups were fabricated and tested during the qualification program. The details of the mock-up manufacture and test results are described in this paper. Also, two heat flux facilities were installed based on the graphite heating, and a new electron beam heat flux facility will be built in the near future for the enhanced heat flux mock-up test. As well, some design analysis was performed to investigate the performance of the blanket first wall against thermo-mechanical loading. In this paper, the status of the R&D activities and the results of the qualification tests for KO mock-ups are reviewed.