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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.
H. Y. Khater, W. F. Vogelsang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 864-869
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29453
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Experimental radionuclide production cross sections have been collected for protons with energy similar to those protons produced in a D-3He fusion reactor. Proton energy-dependent cross sections (Ep < 14.7 MeV) were used along with the proton stopping data of Anderson and Ziegler to produce a proton-induced thick-target radionuclide activation yields library. In its present form, the library contains thick-target yield data for 164 radioactive isotopes. The library has been used in an activation analysis study aimed at investigating the effect of proton-induced activity on the total level of radioactivity generated in Apollo-L2 (a D-3He tokamak fusion power reactor). Because protons have a short range in solid targets, their effect has been noticed only within the first wall of the reactor. Results showed that while neutron-induced specific activity generated in the reactor Tenelon first wall is 8.1 × 107 Ci/m3, proton-induced specific activity only amounted to 6.37 × 105 Ci/m3.