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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.
R. D. Werner, T. A. Eastwood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 1 | January 1965 | Pages 20-25
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21010
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The thermal neutron-capture cross section of 1.0-year Ru106 has been determined from the yield of 22-min Rh107 formed in reactor irradiations. The average of four measurements is 0.146 barns. The experimental error is about ±7% but when systematic errors are included, largely in gamma-ray abundances from Ru106 and Rh107 decay, the uncertainty is about 30%. Cadmium-ratio measurements were made and the resonance-capture integral, including the 1/υ part, was found to be 2.0 ± 0.6 barns for an effective cadmium cutoff of 0.54 eV. These results are relative to a cobalt thermal neutron-capture cross section of 37.5 barns and total resonance integral of 72.7 barns. It has been assumed that neutron capture by Rh106, Ru107 and Rh107 is negligible, that the cross section of Ru106 in the thermal region has a 1/υ dependence and that the neutron spectrum is 1/E in the resonance region.