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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.
W. S. Lyon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 2 | February 1961 | Pages 148-150
doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A15599
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Kr85 decays directly to the ground state by 0.67-Mev maximum beta emission in greater than 99% of the decay. The fraction of the decay which proceeds through a lower energy beta emission (∼0.16 Mev) followed by a gamma transition of 0.514 Mev has been determined by measurement of the number of 0.513-Mev gamma rays per beta disintegration. This γ/β ratio measured by γ scintillation spectrometry and absolute beta counting techniques was found to be 0.0038 ± 0.0003.
