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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.
Ch.You Q.Wang L.Wu Y.Jiao J.Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 826-829
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29446
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A conceptual design for a liquid lithium self-cooled tokamak commercial breeder, TCB, has been performed. Fission-suppressed blanket is adopted to maximize fuel production and alleviate safety problem. U-Pu cycle is chosen owing to its available technology. The difficulty of suppressing fission in a uranium system is partly overcome by using depleted uranium. The toroidal effect and self-shielding effect have been taken into account. The effects of neutron source density distribution on the blanket neutronics performance and poloidal variation of the neutron wall loading are also studied.