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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.
Robert M. Westfall, Dale R. Metcalf
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 1 | September 1973 | Pages 1-11
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23285
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The normal mode expansion technique is applied to the transformed mono-energetic integral transport equation to develop a solution for the rotationally invariant and axially infinite critical two-region cylinder with a finite outer reflector boundary. The model assumes isotropic scattering and identical neutron mean-free-paths in the core and reflector regions. The solution in terms of singular integral equations is obtained by applying a completeness theorem found for the singular eigenfunctions. Numerical results for a variety of core and reflector multiplying properties and reflector thicknesses are presented and compared with the results of other methods. The completeness inherent in this solution and the high precision in the numerical calculations provide results which may be used as analytic standards for this problem. 112