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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.
Richard E. Faw
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 2 | August 1967 | Pages 210-217
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18529
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Energy spectra have been computed for protons, alpha particles, and their secondary electrons slowing down in water irradiated by 14.6-MeV neutrons. Spectra for protons and alpha particles were based on continuous slowing down theory. Anisotropy of the proton-recoil reaction and elastic nuclear collisions of charged particles were found to have negligible influence on energy spectra and the energy-loss distribution. Partitioning of the neutron first-collision dose rate among the three particles was found to be very sensitive to the cutoff energy for production of secondary electrons. An analysis based on treatment of a collisional energy loss of less than 200 eV as localized energy dissipation along a particle track showed that localized electronic energy loss is distributed among protons, alpha particles, and their secondary electrons in the respective fractions 0.530, 0.112, and 0.358.