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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.
Sherif S. Nafee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 175 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 162-167
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Radiation Measurements and General Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12285
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Determining single-escape (SE), double-escape (DE), and full-energy (FE) peak efficiencies is helpful in prompt gamma-ray neutron activation analysis, in which identifying complicated gamma peaks as well as quantifying spectra is crucial. The FE peak efficiency was measured at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a closed-end, n-type high-purity germanium (HPGe) cylindrical detector using standard point sources, whereas SE and DE peak efficiencies and the SE-to-DE peak ratio for the HPGe detector were calculated using compact analytical expressions.