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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.
T. W. Armstrong, J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 38 | Number 3 | December 1969 | Pages 265-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21160
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Calculations have been carried out to determine the time dependence of the residual-photon dose rate inside an accelerator tunnel due to a 3-GeV proton beam located on the axis of an iron cylinder. The photon dose rate produced by the activation of the concrete tunnel wall is calculated and combined with the results from a previous calculation for the dose rate contributed by the iron to obtain the total photon dose rate inside the tunnel. The effectiveness of lowering the total photon dose rate by reducing the 24Na production in the concrete is evaluated. The development of the nucleon-meson cascade, the residual nuclei production, and the photon transport are calculated using Monte Carlo methods.
