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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.
J. R. Berreth, A. P. Hoskins, J. A. Rindfleisch
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 1 | January 1977 | Pages 16-24
Technical Paper | Materials in Waste Storage / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31733
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Corrosion measurements on stainless-steel bins used to store high-level waste (HLW) calcines at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant indicate an internal corrosion rate of 0.13 mm over 500 yr. From a corrosion standpoint, the existing bins or canisters stored in air will last more than 500 yr. Synthetic commercial HLWs solidified by fluidized-bed calcination have been stabilized (nitrates and water removed) at 620 to 720°C to permit their storage in sealed canisters. Heat transfer properties in the canister storage of the basic HLW forms were calculated, based on specified canister configurations, cooling media, and maximum permissible product or canister wall temperature, for a 1500 MTU/yr commercial reprocessing plant. The number of canisters required annually varies from ∼150 to 800 canisters/yr.