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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.
Terry Mitchell, Frederick G. Hammitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23352
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The effects upon spherically symmetric bubble collapse of the various thermodynamic parameters, including interfacial nonequilibrium boundary effects, are examined numerically for the case of cavitation or highly subcooled boiling bubbles. Pressures in the surrounding liquid as a function of time and distance are computed. It is shown that the value selected for the evaporation coefficient, not well known experimentally, has a very strong influence on collapse pressures and velocities. The thermal diffusivity of the bubble contents is also significant but somewhat less important. The effect of nonequilibrium temperature or pressure discontinuities at the interface was found negligible for the cases studied.