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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.
H. Beer, R. R. Spencer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 1 | April 1979 | Pages 98-101
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A18932
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The neutron total cross section of 10B has been determined between 90 and 420 keV neutron energy by means of a transmission measurement on a boron sample enriched in 10B. Deviations in shape from other measurements are within the statistical accuracy of the present measurement and are smaller than 1.5%. In the measured energy region, no indication of narrow resonance structure was found, and the deviation of the total cross section from an E−1/2 energy dependence above 100 keV was confirmed. An analysis using the R-matrix formalism showed that this deviation can be associated with the 7/2+ s-wave resonance at 370 keV.