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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.
Allen R. Boynton, Robert E. Uhrig
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 2 | February 1964 | Pages 220-229
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18321
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An experimental method of measuring parameters peculiar to a two-region nuclear reactor is developed requiring the measurement of the cross-power spectrum between the outputs of the two reactor regions when a random reactivity input is given to one of the regions. Using bandpass filters and an analog computer, the cross-power spectrum between the outputs of the two regions in the University of Florida Training Reactor has been measured. These data indicate that the propagation of a disturbance from one region of the reactor to the other region may adequately be described in terms of neutron-wave phenomena and that the method may be used to determine the multiplication factor of each region.