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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.
J. E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 4 | December 1981 | Pages 340-356
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-340
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A method is developed for using standard discrete ordinates neutron transport codes to perform Fokker-Planck calculations in one-dimensional slab and spherical geometries. No modification of the codes is necessary and time-dependent, steady-state, forward, or adjoint calculations can be performed. It is shown that energy-angle integrated quantities such as energy and charge deposition profiles can be accurately and efficiently calculated for electrons. However, in certain types of problems, the number of groups required to converge the differential energy spectra can be prohibitively large.