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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 195-202
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22396
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An analytic method for error estimate is applied to reactor theory. The method is based on the functional analysis technique and gives upper bounds to the errors. There are two main advantages to the method. First, error estimates can be obtained in cases for which no other known method succeeds. Second, any upper bound to the error obtained by this method is reliable. This method finds an upper bound to the errors in the eigenvalues of homogeneous equations and in the relative RMS solutions of the inhomogeneous equations. When the method is applied to the inhomogeneous integral transport equations, upper bounds to the relative RMS of the fluxes result. Application of the method is further extended to homogeneous equations such as the integral transport equations and even to unbounded equations such as diffusion equations. For these cases the errors in reactivity and time decay constants are studied.