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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
Kirill Fedorovich Raskach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 170 | Number 2 | February 2012 | Pages 196-206
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-09
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In this paper a new technique for accounting for multigroup cross section interdependence in sensitivity calculations is proposed and numerically investigated. In this technique the so-called implicit sensitivities representing multigroup cross-section interdependence are calculated through subgroup parameters. The technique turns out to be easy to implement in existing multigroup cross-section preparation codes and can cover both the homogeneous media and the heterogeneous media conventionally considered in such codes. This technique allows further extensions to cover arbitrary heterogeneous structures. The Monte Carlo technique of computing conventional sensitivities of keff to multigroup cross sections used in this paper is also described.