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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.
Lawrence Ruby, Robert V. Pyle, Yue-Chau Wong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 3 | September 1979 | Pages 280-286
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19064
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Cross sections have been measured for 6Li(6Li,5He)7Be and for 19F(6Li,p)24Na in the laboratory energy range from 3.0 to 15.0 MeV. Similar measurements have been made for 6Li(d,n)7Be in the laboratory energy range from 0.4 to 1.0 Me V. A theoretical analysis of the 6Li(6Li,5He)7Be reaction, using a distorted-wave-Born-approximation calculation, shows that this and other experiments are consistent with a proton-transfer model in a direct-reaction mode.
