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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.
Dušan Babala
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 243-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17474
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Formulas for interval distributions of neutron counts, which open possibilities for new methods of reactor noise measurements, are derived. The proposed experimental techniques promise to be less time consuming than the zero probability method of Mogilner and Zolotukhin. The useful information contained in a sequence of counts lies in its deviation from Poisson statistics. The magnitude of this deviation depends either on the counter efficiency or on the intensity of the external neutron source. From this point of view, the techniques of noise measurements can be divided into two groups: the “efficiency sensitive” methods (Feynman) and the “power sensitive” methods (Rossi-α). The proposed count-to-count interval distribution measurement seems to combine the advantages of both groups.