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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 234-237
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22403
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This paper gives a general Monte Carlo procedure for the calculation of perturbations in the reactivity of a multiplying system due to changes in system parameters (e.g., temperature, control rod positions). The procedure is based on the perturbation theory formula which gives the reactivity change δk exact up to terms of second order if the fission density distribution (and) or the corresponding adjoint function are known up to first order. As this formula makes full use of the properties of the importance (adjoint) function, a Monte Carlo procedure is developed for the evaluation of the adjoint function also.