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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
M. M. R. Williams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 511-519
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17616
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The nonabsorbing thermal-neutron Milne problem is solved for isotropic scattering in the laboratory system. The scattering kernel has been approximated by a two-term degenerate sum and the resulting equations are solved by analytic continuation, together with Wiener-Hopf factorization. The solution so obtained is not explicit in the sense of quadratures, but is in the form of a nonsingular Fredholm equation, which is ideally suited to solution by iteration once certain generalized energy-dependent H-functions have been tabulated. The energy transfer properties of the approximate kernel are discussed, and their effect on the structure of the total flux evaluated. In general, the complete solution consists of an asymptotic part, together with a rethermalization term, which is connected intimately with the energy exchange process, and the integral transient which depends markedly on the variation of the total cross section with energy. It is shown that, when the cross section is constant, the rethermalization term becomes zero and the solution reverts to the one-velocity one, multiplied by a Maxwellian. Certain properties of the energy-dependent H-functions are discussed in the Appendix.