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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.
Dongmei Pan, Zijia Zhao, Zhong Chen, Zhongliang Lv, Junhan Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 4 | May 2019 | Pages 317-323
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1570809
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Rates of neutron production in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas below the temperature of 100 keV have been widely studied with analytical cross sections based on nuclear physics. In the present work, a new algorithm of numerical simulation using the latest nuclear database ENDF/B-VII, discrete ordinate (SN) method, and Monte Carlo methods was developed to describe nuclear reactions in D-T plasma. Compared with the method that used analytical cross section, this new method can predict the nuclear reaction in plasma to several hundreds of kilo-electron-volts and has the potential to give information about directionality of the neutron flux and other interesting nuclear reactions, if needed.