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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.
D. J. Brenner, R. E. Prael
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 1 | September 1984 | Pages 97-101
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17144
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The results of an experiment to measure the 12C(n,n′)3α reaction in nuclear emulsions up to 35 MeV were reanalyzed, with various corrections made using a previously validated nuclear reaction model. Corrections of up to 27% to the published data were obtained, and the corrected results, suggested as an evaluated set of cross sections, are in agreement with low-energy time-of-flight data and also with the predictions of the nuclear reaction model. Corresponding experimental data at 50 MeV also exist; however, they are considered unreliable and calculated data are recommended above 35 MeV.