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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.
T. E. Murley, I. Kaplan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 2 | February 1968 | Pages 207-214
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18232
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A method is presented for calculating the energy spectrum of fission neutrons slowing down in a homogeneous medium of arbitrary composition. The integral equation for ø(E) is solved by an iterative method, yielding a sum of partial spectra which are then summed to obtain a very simple expression for the slowing down spectrum. The effects of absorption and inelastic scattering are accounted for in an approximate manner. The fundamental-mode spectrum for a typical fast-reactor composition was calculated by this method, and the results agree favorably with the central spectrum from a 26-group diffusion calculation. A further application is given for using this method to generate weighting spectra for computing average multigroup cross sections.