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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. C. Young, J. M. Neill, P. d’Oultremont, E.L. Slaggie, C. A. Preskitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 1 | May 1972 | Pages 45-50
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22455
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Neutron spectra have been measured between 50 eV and 8 MeV by the time-of-flight method in the core of a fast subcritical assembly, designated STSF-1A. This core is loaded with plate-type elements consisting of BeO, enriched uranium, and depleted uranium. The measurements were made at the surface of the central BeO plate. Reduction of the data and comparison to transport calculations followed the procedures used for the STSF-2 and STSF-2A assemblies, which were described in detail in a previous paper. The STSF-1A is similar in most significant details to ZPR-3 Assembly 57, built at ANL/Idaho, in which the spectrum was measured with a proton recoil detector, and this similarity permitted a comparison of the time-of-flight and proton-recoil techniques. The two methods have been found to be generally in satisfactory agreement.