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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.
L. A. Mountford and H. A. Morewitz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 421-428
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18786
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Multiregion critical cores, built on a split-table assembly machine, have been used to investigate reactor compositions typical of epithermal and fast power reactors. The design and operating features of the facility, constructed to study the Th-U233 fuel cycle, are described. Criticality calculations have been in good agreement with experimental values.
