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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.
Trine-Yie Dawn, Ing-Jane Chen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 2 | November 1979 | Pages 237-243
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-237
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Based on two properties of the discrete eigenvalues of the one-speed neutron transport equation with anisotropic scattering, we discuss the number and mathematical character of these discrete eigenvalues when the scattering function can be expanded into a finite series of Legendre polynomials. Such special cases as linearly and quadratically anisotropic scattering are studied in detail, and our results are plotted in parameter space. We also investigate the two physically interesting problems of isotropic scattering and linearly anisotropic scattering in the center-of-mass system. The discrete eigenvalues of these two problems are obtained numerically.