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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
H. N. Knickle, P. B. Daitch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 404-416
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19099
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The time-dependent transport equation in plane geometry has been solved numerically using the double spherical harmonics angular approximation and first-order finite differences. The monoenergetic case has been shown to meet both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability for reasonable values of the time step. The convergence and wave front propagation characteristics of the difference scheme have also been checked in special cases and found to be satisfactory. A computer program has been written to solve the difference equations of the multienergy, multiregion problem. Monoenergetic and multigroup calculations have been made which compare qualitatively with experimental results.