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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
Hugh D. Selby, Susan K. Hanson, Daniel Meininger, Warren J. Oldham, William S. Kinman, Jeffrey L. Miller, Sean D. Reilly, Allison M. Wende, Jennifer L. Berger, Jeremy Inglis, Anthony D. Pollington, Christopher R. Waidmann, Roger A. Meade, Kevin L. Buescher, James R. Gattiker, Scott A. Vander Wiel, Peter W. Marcy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 1 | December 2021 | Pages S321-S325
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1932176
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New measurement and assessment techniques have been applied to the radiochemical reevaluation of the Trinity Event. Thirteen trinitite samples were dissolved and analyzed using a combination of traditional decay counting methods and the mass spectrometry techniques. The resulting data were assessed using advanced simulation tools to afford a final yield determination of 24.8 ± 2 kt TNT equivalent, substantially higher than the previous U.S. Department of Energy released value of 21 kt.