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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.
Yuzuri Yasuda, Keiji Nagai, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Shinsuke Fujioka, Hiroaki Nishimura, Katsunobu Nishihara, Yasukazu Izawa, Kunioki Mima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 4 | May 2007 | Pages 769-771
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1476
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Several hundred tin dots with controlled size were easily fabricated on transparency film by using an inkjet printer with SnSO4 solution. A surface treatment using Tween 20 as the surfactant was necessary. The SnSO4 was reduced to metallic tin with NaBH4. The thickness of metallic tin was 25 nm for one throughput.
