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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.
Wm. H. Reed, K. D. Lathrop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 2 | August 1970 | Pages 237-248
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20710
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The truncation error of difference approximations to the transport equation is examined, and difference equations which are uniformly second-order accurate are derived. Resulting angular quadrature sets are shown to integrate exactly polynomials of second order in the direction cosines. The analysis is completed for the most general cases of three dimensional spherical and cylindrical geometries. Numerical results comparing this second-order scheme to the standard diamond difference equations in one-dimensional spherical geometry are presented.