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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.
H. Liskien, R. Widera, R. Wölfle, S. M. Qaim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 266-271
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A22327
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For the first time, an experimentally determined excitation function for tritium production from beryllium has been obtained. Beryllium samples were irradiated with well-known fluxes of monoenergetic neutrons in the 12.86- to 19.57-MeV energy range and the induced tritium was quantitatively extracted and counted. The results disagree with the JEF-1 prediction but show a remarkably good agreement with JENDL-3/PR2 and a recent Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluation, both based on 14-MeV values and theoretical calculations.