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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.
Maria Do Carmo Lopes, Jorge Molina Avila
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 40-45
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23700
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The new approach for calculating neutron self-shielding factors taking into account isotropic multiple scattering, recently developed for the thermal region, is extended to epithermal resonance energies. The method is based on a collision function determined solely by the cross sections and the geometry of the probe submitted to the neutron field. The influence of the external field is separately included in the first collision probability distribution. Some advantages of the method with respect to the transport theory are discussed. Numerical results for the main epithermal resonances in cobalt and gold are presented, including the self-shielding factor as a function of the incident neutron energy.