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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 82-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23528
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A new uncertainty analysis method based on the generalized bias operator method is presented. The new method can be used for those cases in which the other uncertainty analysis methods cannot be applied, due to the lack of or the incomplete knowledge about the input parameter's uncertainties, or due to an inadequate model. The method presented can be applied in those cases in which at least one of the system's responses is measured and the accuracy of the measurements is better than the deviation between the measured and the calculated value obtained. The theory of the method is presented, as well as methods to obtain the special sensitivity matrices associated with the method.