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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.
R.R. Peterson, E.G. Lovell, R.L. Engelstad, G.L. Kulcinski, G.A. Moses, K.J. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 872-877
Inertial Confinement Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22970
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The choice of material for the first wall of the Light Ion Beam Target Development Facility is discussed. Materials considered are Al 6061, Al 5086, 304 stainless steel, HT-9 (ferritic steel), Ti-6A1-4V, Cu-Be C17200, and Cu-Be C17600. The thermal response, mechanical response and induced radioactivity in first walls made of each of these materials are calculated. Minimum thicknesses of these walls are determined and cost estimates are made for the material requirements for each wall. Finally Al 6061 is suggested as the best choice of first wall material.
