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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.
A. Keith Furr and John R. Tucker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 364-370
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20015
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A study of the average s- and þ-wave resonance parameters of 115In and 127I has been carried out by activation of samples in a 10B filtered beam of epithermal neutrons from a reactor. Neutron strength functions were obtained that are comparable to recent values obtained by total-cross-section studies but somewhat lower than earlier capture measurements. The s- and þ-wave neutron strength functions for 115In were found to be 0.09 ± 0.03 × 10−4 and 3.9 ± 1.4 × 10−4, respectively, and for 127I, the corresponding values were found to be 0.42 × 10−4 and 0.83 ± 0.20 × 10−4. The average energy-dependent neutron cross sections from 1 to 100 keV were computed for both isotopes from the experimentally determined resonance parameters.