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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.
T.E. Luzzi, I.R. Clarkson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 908-913
Innovative Concepts for Power Conversion | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24852
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We report on the final design of the direct converter for MINIMARS, a tandem mirror power reactor project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The project objectives are to design a plant to produce electricity at less than 50 mils/kWh and design an inherently safe plasma shutdown and heat transport system that sustains no damage from loss of coolant and loss of flow. The direct converter coolant like the blanket coolant is used to generate primary turbine steam. All thermo and structural load bearing elements are designed for the reactor lifetime. The halo scraper sputter lifetime is five full power years. The power to circulate the helium coolant through the direct converter elements is less than 5% of the thermal power recovered.