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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.
A. Ziya Akcasu, R. K. Osborn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 1 | September 1966 | Pages 13-25
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17183
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The space- and energy-dependent theory of reactor-noise analysis has been developed using Langevin's technique starting from the transport equations. The theory includes delayed neutrons. The correlation function and the power spectral density for the detection rate, as well as for the neutron density, have been obtained. The application of the general theory to simple reactor models has been discussed and illustrated by considering the one-speed transport and one-speed diffusion approximations. The connection between Langevin's technique and the doublet theory based on the Liouville equation has been established. It has been found that both formulations yield identical results and that the postulates of Langevin's technique are justified for the study of neutron distributions.