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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.
James H. Degnan, William L. Baker, Maynard Cowan, Jr., Jack D. Graham, Jed L. Holmes, Emmanuel A. Lopez, David W. Price, Dale Ralph, Norman F. Roderick
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | May 1999 | Pages 354-360
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A85
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An experiment to combine many moderate-energy plasma gun discharges into one higher-energy discharge is described. Operated in a cylindrical array were 12 to 24 plasma guns with individual currents of up to 300 kA and individual discharge energies of 25 to 80 kJ. They were directed radially inward. They used separate refractory insulators. Reusable operation was achieved at up to a 1-MJ, 3-MA composite discharge level, and fast photography indicated that the separate discharges combined to form a single, symmetric, cylindrically converging discharge.