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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.
J. Ligou, C. Mignot
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 1 | May 1964 | Pages 58-73
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19789
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This article is devoted to an extension of Galanin's heterogeneous theory to the tridimensional problems usually met in studies of small reactors. Clearly, this method is also applicable to bidimensional problems. Here also, it brings in several improvements compared with the parent theory, especially concerning the radial reflector, which can here be of finite dimensions. Significant numerical examples are given in the final section. The codes used—for the IBM 7090 computer—lead to times of calculation which are reasonable for small reactors. They may also be used for much bigger reactors provided that they are used to treat bidimensional problems only.