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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.
Yorio Gotoh, Hiroshi Takahashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 2 | August 1971 | Pages 126-140
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20880
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Since the model in which the water molecules form partially “ice-like” clusters explains the thermodynamic properties, the so-called itinerant oscillator model is applied to the motion of water molecules. The assumption is made that the atoms in a molecule receive stochastic forces from the neighboring molecules. The model of water with the stochastic force, of which the correlation functions are a delta function and a simple exponential, is discussed. The generalized frequency distributions of light and heavy water are derived from the model. The incoherent calculations of scattering laws of light and heavy water are compared with measurements. The model predicts well the total scattering cross section of light water, but the average cosine of scattering angle is slightly higher than that of the experiment. Further refinements in the model are discussed.