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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.
Michel Giot, Maria Elena Urso, Ron Cameron
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 397-402
Education, Economics, and Sustainability | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13452
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This paper reviews some of the significant initiatives around the world that have been launched during the last decade to stop the decline of the influx of available well educated and well trained workforce. It also analyzes the use of research reactors and critical assemblies for education purposes, and concludes with some recommendations.