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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.
Hiroo Nakamura, Kenji Tobita, Toshio Hirayama, Yoshihiko Koide, Takashi Arai, Masaaki Kuriyama, Hirotaka Kubo, Yoshinori Kusama, Tatsuo Sugie, Masayoshi Sugihara, Tomonori Takizuka, Keiji Tani, Shin Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 578-582
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29249
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Helium ash exhaust characteristics have been studied in the JT-60 lower divertor with ohmic heating (OH) and neutral beam heating (NBH) of PNB ≦ 18 MW and Ip = 1 MA. Helium fueling was done by gas puff. The divertor neutral pressures of hydrogen (H2) and helium were measured by a residual gas mass analyzer. The helium enrichment in the divertor was also measured. In OH discharges with helium gas puff, no buildup of helium neutral pressure was observed and helium was depleted. On the other hand, in NBH discharges with helium gas puff although enrichment of helium is not observed, the neutral pressures of H2 and helium increase in proportion to . The density dependence of the helium neutral pressures in NBH discharges is promising for efficient helium ash exhaust in fusion reactors.