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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 N. Olcott
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 4 | August 1956 | Pages 327-341
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18606
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Ten critical assemblies of enriched uranyl-fluoride heavy-water solutions have been studied. In six cases, heavy water reflectors surrounded solutions in which the atomic ratio of deuterium to uranium-235 varied from 34 to 430. The remaining four assemblies were without reflector and the deuterium to U235 ratio ranged from 230 to 2080. Activation rates within the systems were measured for the resonance detectors In, Au, Pd, and Mn and for the fission detectors U235, U238, Pu239, and U233.