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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.
Bruce E. Schmitt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 26-29
Technical Paper | Third International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33660
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The computer code RETRAN-02 is being used to analyze operational transients at the Hanford N Reactor. Included in the scope of the transients is a loss of feedwater from two 430-MW(electric) turbines to the secondary cooling system. An actual loss of feedwater from one of the two turbines occurred prior to this analysis, and plant data obtained from this transient were used in the validation of the RETRAN computer model. These data are compared with the RETRAN-02 predictions.