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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.
Munir Ahmad, C. E. Brient, P. M. Egun, S. M. Grimes, S. Saraf, H. Satyanarayana
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 4 | April 1987 | Pages 296-303
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-296
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Cross sections for the emission of protons, deuterons, and alpha particles from enriched targets of 63Cu and 65Cu bombarded with 9- and 11-MeV neutrons were measured. A charged-particle time-of-flight spectrometer capable of detecting particles with energies as low as 1 MeV was used to make these measurements. Cross sections and spectra are compared with statistical and preequilibrium model calculations. Level density parameters of various nuclei resulting from the best simultaneous fit to present and previous 15-MeV data are inferred.