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DOE extends Centrus’s HALEU production contract by one year
Centrus Energy has announced that it 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. According to Centrus, the extension is valued at about $110 million through June 30, 2026.
Edward W. Larsen, R. P. Hughes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 3 | March 1980 | Pages 274-285
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19851
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A general problem of time-dependent neutron transport in a spatially heterogeneous medium is analyzed by two perturbation methods that have previously been applied to specialized problems. These “buckling” and “asymptotic” methods are shown to be equivalent in the sense that the asymptotic method leads to a time-dependent diffusion equation with constant coefficients, whereas the buckling method leads to the corresponding dispersion law. Two applications, the calculation of keff, and the derivation of a point reactor model are given. Also, the general results obtained here are shown, in several special cases, to reduce to the simpler results obtained previously.