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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
N. J. Drindak, J. A. Burke, G. Leinweber, J. A. Helm, J. G. Hoole, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, R. E. Slovacek, B. E. Moretti, C. J. Werner, M. E. Overberg, S. A. Kolda, M. J. Trbovich, D. P. Barry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 154 | Number 3 | November 2006 | Pages 294-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-A2634
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Epithermal neutron capture and transmission measurements were performed using the time-of-flight method at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute linac using metallic Nb samples. The capture measurements were made at the 25-m flight station with a 16-section sodium iodide multiplicity detector and the transmission measurements at the 25-m flight station with a 6Li glass scintillation detector. Resonance parameters were determined for all resonances up to 500 eV with a combined analysis of capture and transmission data using the multilevel R-matrix Bayesian code SAMMY. The results are compared to those presented in ENDF/B-VI, updated through Release 3.