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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.
E. B. Dahl, N. G. Sjöstrand
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 114-125
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-114
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The transport equation for monoenergetic neutrons with linearly anisotropic scattering has been solved numerically with a method developed by Carlvik. Homogeneous multiplying systems in the form of spheres and infinite slabs were studied with boundary conditions of no incoming neutrons. Tables are given of six or more eigenvalues for an average cosine of the scattering angle ranging from 0 to 0.3 and for various dimensions of the bodies. With increasing anisotropy, there is an increasing number of complex eigenvalues that extend to lower modes and larger bodies. For spheres, tentative curves of the eigenvalue spectrum are given.