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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
T. D. Beynon, I. S. Grant
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 4 | December 1965 | Pages 368-379
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21074
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Double P/0 diffusion theory is shown to be a sufficiently accurate representation for calculating resonance absorption and its temperature coefficient. The theory is formulated to allow for non-uniform temperature distributions and spatial variation of neutron cross sections. It is applied to uranium rods in graphite-moderated reactors, assuming a parabolic fuel-temperature distribution. Volume and surface temperature coefficients for absorption are defined. The energy distributions of these coefficients in strongly absorbing resonances are shown to differ Significantly. It is found that the total volume coefficient exceeds the total surface coefficient by 15% at normal operating temperatures. At higher temperatures the total volume coefficient is larger by 5%. Rowlands' formula for the effective uniform temperature is shown to be reliable for calculating the resonance integral and the volume temperature coefficient, but not for the surface coefficient.