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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.
W. Gary Rivera, Emily Sandt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 1 | June 2023 | Pages S57-S69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2106738
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, in conjunction with the Nuclear Energy Institute and Light Water Reactor Sustainability Programs, have conducted testing and analysis to reevaluate and redefine the minimum passible opening size through which a person can effectively pass and navigate. Physical testing with a representative population has been performed on both simple two-dimensional (rectangular and circular cross sections up to 91.4 cm in depth) and more complex three-dimensional (circular cross sections of longer lengths up to 9.1 m and changes in direction) opening configurations. The primary impact of this effort is to define the physical design in which an adversary could successfully pass through a potentially complex opening, as well as to define the designs in which an adversary would not be expected to successfully traverse a complex opening. These data can then be used to support risk-informed decision making.