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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.
R.J. Thome, B.A. Smith, R.D. Pillsbury, Jr., M.M. Olmstead, J. Bates, R. Vieira & J. Feng, P. Titus & R.L. Myatt
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1059-1064
Ignition Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29483
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The CIT design has evolved recently from a system in which the central solenoid outer boundary interacts with the inner legs of the toroidal field coils for mutual radial support during operation, to a system in which the central solenoid is radially self-supporting. The machine has also undergone some dimensional changes with a resulting increase in the demand for the total flux swing by the poloidal field (PF) coil system from 61 to 75 volt-seconds. This paper summarizes features of the two central solenoid designs and selected requirements for fabrication and operation. It also presents an update on results from the R&D program for this 20+ tesla coil system, together with future plans.
