Y-12 National Security Complex LEU-Mo Casting Update

Conference · Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1582017

Turpin, Danielle ^[1]; Henkel, Jim ^[1]

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1. Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The Y-12 National Security Complex participates in the Fuel Fabrication pillar of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Material Minimization and Management (M3) Office of Conversion Pillar. Y-12's primary responsibility is to establish the fabrication process of low-enriched uranium- molybdenum (LEU-Mo) feedstock for United States High Performance Research Reactors. This update focuses on recent efforts to demonstrate consistency and repeatability in the LEU-Mo fabrication process for production environment.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-NA0001942
• OSTI ID: 1582017
• Report Number(s): YGG-19-0410; IROS13108
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
Fuel fabrication
low-enriched uranium-molybdenum
LEU-Mo
feedstock
research reactors