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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.
S. N. Cramer, T. Y. Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 180-187
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A15731
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The analysis of neutron spectra emitted from a 14-MeV source and streaming through a void steel duct embedded in concrete is carried out using a multigroup Monte Carlo code on a small computer. The calculated results are compared with experimental results and with other calculational analyses involving continuous energy Monte Carlo methods. The computational methods agree when the Pn expansion of the multigroup method is sufficiently extended. Some discrepancies with the experimental results, found in earlier analyses, still remain; and these are investigated with regard to the use of a new modification of the evaluated iron data, the spreading of the calculated results for comparison with experimental spectra, and various other modeling details.