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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. K. Fletcher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 3 | March 1981 | Pages 367-372
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19846
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The source-free monoenergetic transport equation can be written as where for plane and for spherical geometries, respectively; Ω is the direction of motion with θ as its angle to the axis, An analytic expression for ψ(Z, cosθ) of the form is considered where Pn(cosθ) is the Legendre polynomial of order n; are combinations of exponential functions for the plane case and Bessel functions in the spherical formulation. A simple algorithm is developed that enables solutions to be found for any N using a small computer program.