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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.
Jacek Arkuszewski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 1 | January 1967 | Pages 104-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18047
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The Wiener-Hopf factorization method has been applied to the energy-dependent Milne problem with simple separable isotropic kernel and absorption of 1/vn type. Extensive numerical calculations for free gas scattering cross sections have been performed and their partial results are presented. Discussion of these results, namely the critical absorption coefficients, discrete space eigenvalues, extrapolation distances, and emergent neutron distributions confirm the earlier assertion of Williams that critical absorption as well as asymptotic spatial parameters depend rather weakly upon the energy exchange mechanism, being more sensitive to the energy dependence of the mean free path. Nelkinapos;s model for water has also been studied, in the form of a separable kernel. The critical absorption as well as discrete spatial eigenvalues for this case appear to be in good agreement with values obtained by Honeck for the full isotropic Nelkin kernel.