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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. Courau, G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 141 | Number 1 | May 2002 | Pages 46-54
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2265
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Computation of adjoint and generalized adjoint fluxes may present some difficulties, especially when relying on the collision probability technique in transport theory. This paper proposes a simple method to compute those adjoint flux and generalized adjoint fluxes associated with homogenized and condensed cross sections. By defining a pseudo adjoint flux, one can apply an algorithm, similar to that required for the evaluation of the direct neutron flux, to adjoint flux calculations. Because of the presence of the scattering source, a multigroup iterative procedure is used in DRAGON for the direct flux solution. We show that this procedure can be easily modified in such a way that the performance of the solution algorithm is preserved for the adjoint problem. Finally, a generic adjoint algorithm is presented to deal with generalized adjoint fluxes' computation.