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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
R. E. Maerker and F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 423-433
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18281
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Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out to determine the fast-neutron dose-rate distributions along the center lines of both a straight and a two-legged square concrete duct for a particularly demanding source geometry. The calculations incorporated doubly differential dose-albedo data for concrete which were previously reported. A comparison of the results of the calculations with those from a geometrically similar experiment shows good agreement, and places on a firm foundation the concept of treating the fast-neutron duct transmission problem as a reflection phenomenon at a point that is describable by the differential albedo properties of the walls.