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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. Pahor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 1 | January 1968 | Pages 110-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18013
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The method for solving time-independent one-speed half-space transport problems, which was explained in earlier papers, is applied to find the emerging distributions for the albedo and Milne problems for thermal neutrons with the isotropic degenerate kernel. By using the principle of invariance and the reciprocity theorem, these distributions are expressed in terms of the H-matrix. This matrix is a generalization of the one-speed Ambarzumian-Chandrasekhar H-function and satisfies a nonlinear integral equation. The conditions, which uniquely determine the physical solution of this equation, are derived. At the end, the possibilities for calculating the H-matrix by iteration are discussed.