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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.
Alexei Yu. Chirkov, Semion A. Tokarev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 413-420
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2135337
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The formation of the spectrum of ions leaving the Z-pinch constriction during its compression is considered in the framework of the thermal mechanism corresponding to collisional regimes at high density. This mechanism refers to the heating of all ions due to compression without consideration of the electromagnetic acceleration of any selected group of ions. It is shown that such conditions can be implemented in relatively high-density regimes in which the product of precompression density and radius is n0a0 ≫ 1024 m–3. Neutron yield is analyzed. Possible parameters of a fusion reactor based on a high-density Z-pinch are estimated and found to be extremely high in terms of today’s technology.