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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.
Manuela Profir, Vincent Moreau
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 4 | April 2024 | Pages 565-578
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2175589
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The pool-type experimental facility CIRColazione Eutettico (CIRCE) has been built by ENEA in support to the development of liquid-metal fast reactors. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the new test section, called the Thermal-hydraulic HElical Tubes Innovative System or THETIS, is being built, and is described along with the pretest numerical results. The pretest study analysis supports the dimensioning of the experimental setup and provides a sound but still not complete basis for the experimental transients. Appropriate thermal boundary conditions for the steady state are implemented. These conditions are found to be not suitable for thermal transients, hence the necessary compliance is analyzed and defined, requiring additional preliminary experimental tests. The main novelty in the refurbishment of the CIRCE is the installation of an innovative helical coil steam generator (HCSG). The realization of its numerical counterpart is challenging; therefore, a specific CFD model of the HCSG has been developed separately from the global model. Its preliminary results are described and discussed.