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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.
Y. Itikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | May 2013 | Pages 333-337
Technical Paper | Selected papers from IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, September 4-7, 2012, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16439
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Evaluation of cross-section data for various collision processes is now being made by many groups. But the results (i.e., recommended data) are often different from each other depending on who evaluates them. An evaluation (or validation) of the evaluated data is necessary. Three examples of the activity are shown here: (a) consistency check of the total scattering cross section, (b) calculation of the swarm parameters, and (c) chemical modeling. For the first two cases, a demonstration is performed with the use of the cross-section sets recommended for the electron collisions with N2 and O2 by the present author.