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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.
S. D. Paranjape, D. C. Sahni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1989 | Pages 153-165
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23604
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The linear Fokker-Planck equation characterizing charged-particle transport in a fully ionized plasma has been solved in one-dimensional spherical geometry by the techniques of Fourier transformation and Legendre expansion. The vacuum boundary condition at the plasma surface has been treated by appending to the plasma a fictitious medium in which angular dispersion is absent. The solution technique has been applied to the problem of alpha-particle slowing down in a fully ionized inertial confinement fusion plasma.