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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 268-272
Fusion-Fission Hybrids and Transmutation | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13431
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The performance of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor as a tritium production device was examined. A gas turbine high-temperature reactor of 300 MWe nominal capacity (GTHTR300) was assumed as the calculation target of a typical gas-cooled reactor, and using the continuous-energy Monte Carlo transport code MVP-BURN, burn-up simulations for the entire-core region of GTHTR300 were carried out considering its unique double heterogeneity structure. It was shown that gas-cooled reactors with thermal output power of 3 GW in all can produce 6~10 kg of tritium in a year.
