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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.
Terry Mitchell, Frederick G. Hammitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23352
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The effects upon spherically symmetric bubble collapse of the various thermodynamic parameters, including interfacial nonequilibrium boundary effects, are examined numerically for the case of cavitation or highly subcooled boiling bubbles. Pressures in the surrounding liquid as a function of time and distance are computed. It is shown that the value selected for the evaporation coefficient, not well known experimentally, has a very strong influence on collapse pressures and velocities. The thermal diffusivity of the bubble contents is also significant but somewhat less important. The effect of nonequilibrium temperature or pressure discontinuities at the interface was found negligible for the cases studied.