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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.
Yoshitaka Ueki, Yuya Noguchi, Juro Yagi, Teruya Tanaka, Takehiko Yokomine, Masaru Hirabayashi, Kuniaki Ara, Tomoaki Kunugi, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | October 2017 | Pages 530-536
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1330636
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The lead-lithium eutectic alloy (PbLi) is a promising coolant for nuclear fusion reactors. Although PbLi flow and heat transfer in a nuclear fusion reactor condition needs to be comprehended, no velocity profile measurement techniques have been developed yet. Since PbLi is a high-temperature liquid metal, ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry (UDV) is a promising method. In the present study, we investigated a UDV measurement in a high-purity PbLi forced convection loop environment. In summary, naturally contained oxide particles as flow tracers could differ by PbLi purity, and this difference could influence UDV measurability.