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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.
W. L. Whittemore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 2 | August 1968 | Pages 195-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20657
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The General Atomic Neutron Velocity Selector was used to study the details of neutron scattering in liquid D2O maintained at 300° K. The scattering into various angular directions between 30 and 120° is studied for incident neutrons with energies ranging up to ∼0.65 eV. The energy-transfer cross sections, corrected for plural scattering effects, are evaluated to provide data in regions of large energy and momentum transfers not previously available and not readily accessible to experimenters using a reactor as a source of neutrons. The present results agree satisfactorily with the previous results but indicate that the previous results contain effects due to plural scattering in the sample. The present results also are compared with theory. Although there are some regions of acceptable agreement, other regions of poorer agreement indicate that each of these theoretical treatments may need further attention.