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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.
Richard L. Macklin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 2 | June 1988 | Pages 133-144
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23554
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Neutron capture up to 700 keV was measured for arsenic and bromine and for an enriched sample of 81Br. Individual resonance capture was parameterized in the first several kilo-electron-volts and average capture cross sections derived at the higher energies. Maxwellian average cross sections found for 79,81Br and 75As, respectively, were 741 ± 30, 244 ± 10, and 455 ± 18 mb for a temperature kT = 30 keV. Resonance capture integrals calculated for 79,81 Br, respectively, were 130 ± 5 and 46.6 ± 1.8 b.