
Nuclear Fuel Services, Erwin, Tenn., received a long-expected $57-million contract to design and demonstrate highly enriched uranium conversion and purification for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency said this week. If the BWX Technologies [BWXT] subsidiary’s pilot meets the agency’s goals, the company could earn a follow-on contract to perform some of the uranium work now handled at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Meanwhile, phase-one work “will begin immediately,” BWX Technologies wrote in its own…