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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.
Layton J. Wittenberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 886-890
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29862
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A computational model is presented in order to assess the cost of tritium breeding in a fusion power reactor. This model compares the differential cost of the Li-bearing breeder blanket with that of a steel shield and adds the “loss of revenue” due to the lower energy multiplication of the breeder blanket compared to the steel shield. The cost of tritium production ranges from $215–$300/g for a simple breeder up to $1420/g for a high temperature breeder.