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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.
Tushar Roy, Nirmal Ray, Shefali Bajpai, Tarun Patel, Mayank Shukla, Yogesh Kashyap, Amar Sinha, S. C. Gadkari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 184 | Number 4 | December 2016 | Pages 584-590
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-81
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The use of accelerator-driven systems for incineration of nuclear waste and energy production requires monitoring of different parameters that govern reactor safety. One of the most important parameters is the multiplication factor keff . The present paper describes the results of experiments carried out on a subcritical system (BRAHMMA) using a pulsed neutron source. The value of the multiplication factor keff obtained from time responses of the core that were measured in situ using neutron detectors after insertion of a neutron pulse matches well with the calculated value.