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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.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., K. C. Chandler, B. L. Bishop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 1 | September 1972 | Pages 82-92
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22529
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A Monte Carlo transport code for calculating high-energy nucleon-meson cascades in thick targets is described. The calculational method uses an intra-nuclear-cascade-extrapolation-evaporation model for treating nonelastic collisions ≳3 GeV. Calculated results for the development of the cascade induced in thick iron targets by 10-, 19.2-, 29.4-, and 200-GeV/c protons are presented. For the cases of 10-, 19.2-, and 29.4-GeV/c incident protons, comparisons are made with experimental data and, in general, good agreement is obtained.
