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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.
M. Mordant
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 2 | February 1986 | Pages 218-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A18169
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A type of “phase-space discontinuous diamond” difference scheme, or “phase-space linear discontinuous finite element” approximation, is implemented to solve the two-dimensional [(x-y) or (r-z)] neutron transport equation. The results obtained on some well-known transport benchmark problems are much more accurate than discrete ordinates solutions attained with spatial diamond differencing or discontinuous finite element approximations. Error studies show convergence to the phase-space fine-mesh limit solution with an approximate and convergence rate, at least in the case of rectangular cells on phase-space domain D × V. In addition, phase-space fine-mesh limit results have been estimated with the help of extrapolation procedures for some neutron transport benchmark problems. This phase-space linear discontinuous finite element approach can be easily enlarged to more general spaces.