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DOE extends Centrus’s HALEU production contract by one year
Centrus Energy has secured a contract extension from the Department of Energy to continue—for one year—its ongoing high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) production at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, at an annual rate of 900 kilograms of HALEU UF6. That's the same amount of HALEU—900 kg—that the company today announced it has delivered to the DOE, completing Phase II of its contract. According to Centrus, the contract extension, which allows the company to begin Phase III, is valued at about $110 million through June 30, 2026.
A. Amendola, G. Reina
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 3 | March 1981 | Pages 297-315
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19840
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This work presents a new general methodology called Event Sequences and Consequence Spectrum, which is the result of the synthesis between the Response Surface Methodology for the simulation of system physical behavior and the Logical Analytical Methodology for the generation of logical structures in system reliability studies. The connection of the logical to the physical aspects allows the investigation of the physically possible accident temporal sequences, their dynamic consequence spectrum, and the associated probability of occurrence. An exemplificative application derived from the liquid-metal fast breeder reactor core accident problematic is described extensively, pointing out the importance of the proposed approach for an exhaustive dynamic analysis of incident scenarios.