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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
George I. Bell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 3 | March 1965 | Pages 390-401
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-1
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We consider the probability, pn(R,t∫; ,,t), that in a multiplying system, a neutron with position velocity , at time t leads to exactly n neutrons in region R of , space at time t∫. By formulating pn in terms of first collision probabilities we derive a non-linear (Boltzmann-like) integro-differential equation for the probability generating function, G. The linearized equation for = 1 - G is shown to be adjoint to the usual Boltzmann equation for the average neutron flux. The behavior of for subcritical and supercritical systems is analyzed. For large t∫-t, it is shown that for subcritical systems approaches zero exponentially, while for supercritical systems → which is a solution of the time-independent non-linear equation for and equals the probability of getting a divergent chain reaction from the initial neutron. In section B, one-velocity theory with isotropic scattering is described in some detail while in section C are outlined the extensions to 1) energy-dependent problems with anisotropic scattering 2) multiple final states, 3) random sources, 4) counting problems, and 5) delayed neutron precursors. In section D methods for solution of equations for G are briefly discussed, and it is shown that the asymptotic behavior may be found from solutions of linear time-independent ‘adjoint α’ and ‘adjoint k’ calculations. Derivation of a point model independent of space and velocity is carried out by an expansion in adjoint α eigenfunctions and the model parameters are shown to differ from those usually assumed in point models.