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DOE-NE’s newest fuel consortium includes defense from antitrust laws
The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy is setting up a nuclear fuel Defense Production Act Consortium that will seek voluntary agreements with interested companies “to increase fuel availability, provide more access to reliable power, and end America’s reliance on foreign sources of enriched uranium and critical materials needed to power the nation’s nuclear renaissance.” According to an August 22 DOE press release, the plan invokes the Defense Production Act (DPA) to give consortium members “defense from antitrust laws when certain criteria are met” and “allow industry consultation to develop plans of action.” DOE-NE is looking for interested companies to join the consortium ahead of its first meeting, scheduled for October 14.
P.O. Biney, S. Lomperski, M.L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1355-1361
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29531
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A review and discussion of the conditions leading to liquid metal ignition including experimental determination of an ignition envelope for liquid lithium are presented. A simple lumped model is used to investigate the necessary conditions (liquid metal and water temperatures) for liquid metal ignition to be imminent. Both the experimental and model results indicate that as the liquid metal temperature is increased, the water temperature required for interaction to proceed to a vapor phase reaction decreases. A rate equation for the reaction of lithium-lead alloy (Li17Pb83) is determined using a mass transport reaction model. The results indicate that the reaction of this lithium-lead alloy with water can be represented by a parabolic rate law.
