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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.
A. Paulsen, H. Liskien, F. Arnotte, R. Widera
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 377-385
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21371
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A measuring program has been carried out at the Van de Graaff accelerator facility of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements for the determination of (n, α) cross sections on the main constituents of fast reactor structural materials, namely the elements chromium, iron, and nickel. The alpha particles are detected in a reaction chamber by telescope counter arrangements at five observation angles between 14 and 141 deg. Results obtained in the energy range from 5 to 10 MeV are presented in terms of laboratory angle-differential cross sections, relative Legendre polynomial coefficients of angular distributions, angle-integrated cross sections, and average alpha energies.