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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. Segev, S. Carmona
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 206-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18214
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Resonance integrals for lattices of annular rod absorbers can be accurately determined by ordinary equivalence relation procedures. This is demonstrated for water lattices of annular uranium rods whose inner cylindrical zone is either a void or is water filled. The equivalence cross section, needed to enable the use of tabulated homogenous integrals, is given by a formula recently developed. There are three parameters in the formula that need estimation: a Dancoff factor for the lattice, the probability of neutrons entering the inner rod zone to collide there, and a Bell factor. Ways and means to estimate these parameters are discussed and demonstrated. The interpolation of resonance integrals from entries in existing tables of homogenous integrals is performed with an accurate technique. Results of the equivalence-based calculations are compared with results by the integral transport RABBLE code.