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Fluor to serve as EPC contractor for Centrus’s Piketon plant expansion
The HALEU cascade at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. (Photo: Centrus Energy)
American Centrifuge Operating, a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp., has formed a multiyear strategic collaboration with Fluor Corporation in which Fluor will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for Centrus’s expansion of its uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. Fluor will lead the engineering and design aspects of the American Centrifuge Plant’s expansion, manage the supply chain and procurement of key materials and services, oversee construction at the site, and support the commissioning of new capacity.
Joo Hwan Park, Jee-Won Park, Hangbok Choi, Myung Seung Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 153 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 164-174
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3697
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Thermal-hydraulic compatibility of the DUPIC fuel bundle with a 713-MW(electric) Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU-6) reactor was studied by using both the single-channel and subchannel analysis methods. The single-channel analysis provides the fuel channel flow rate, pressure drop, critical channel power, and the channel exit quality, which are assessed against the thermal-hydraulic design requirements of the CANDU-6 reactor. The single-channel analysis by the NUCIRC code showed that the thermal-hydraulic performance of the DUPIC fuel is not different from that of the standard CANDU fuel. Regarding the local flow characteristics, the subchannel analysis also showed that the uncertainty of the critical channel power calculation for the DUPIC fuel channel is very small. As a result, both the single- and subchannel analyses showed that the key thermal-hydraulic parameters of the DUPIC fuel channel do not deteriorate compared with the standard CANDU fuel channel.