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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.
J. Devooght, C. Machgeels
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 1 | April 1968 | Pages 82-92
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18827
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A new method of synthesis of the time-dependent behavior of a neutron pulse or of the space-dependent transfer function is given which combines analytical time dependence with numerical (or analytical) dependence of the other variables. The analytical development in Laguerre polynomials of time is obtained recursively in solving iteratively the static Boltzmann equations with sources. The convergence of the development, the bound of the truncation error, and the choice of the free parameters are examined for various cases. The method is finally applied (using an experimental map of the steady flux) in a water slab and the synthesized time-dependent flux is compared to the experimental one.