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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. H. Windsor, W. J. Tunney, G. A. Price
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 2 | November 1970 | Pages 150-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-2
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An extended series of exponential experiments was carried out utilizing 233UO2-ThO2 fuel elements in uniform arrays in light and heavy water. In this series the principal parameters measured were material buckling (), reflector savings (λ), dysprosium disadvantage factor (ζ Dy), ratio of epicadmium to subcadmium capture in thorium (), and ratio of 232Th fission to 233U fission (). A total of 29 clean and poisoned lattices was measured.