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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.
W. N. McElroy, S. Berg, T. B. Crockett, R. J. Tuttle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 1 | April 1969 | Pages 15-27
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18853
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A multiple foil activation iterative method has been used to experimentally determine neutron flux spectra in various types of neutron environments. The method involves irradiation of a set of different foil detectors, measurement of resultant activities, and adjustment of a spectrum selected as an initial approximation to obtain a good-fit solution for a set of simultaneous activation integral equations. A computer code, SAND-II, is used to obtain this solution. Spectra from thermal and fast reactors and from beam sources have been measured. In each experiment, a set of more than ten foil detectors, encompassing low- and high-energy neutron-induced reactions, was irradiated and used as input to SAND-II. Solutions obtained are compared with diffusion, transport, or Monte Carlo calculations or with spectrometer measurements. It is concluded that the multiple foil activation iterative method is an important adjunct to calculational and neutron spectrometer techniques used to determine neutron flux spectra.