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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.
Woo Sik Jung, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 384-395
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23836
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Based on the maximum entropy principle used to reconstruct the neutron flux distribution in nodal calculations, an improved method that utilizes Lagrange multipliers and incorporates corner-point fluxes is described. The probability distribution that maximizes the entropy provides the most unbiased objective probability distribution within the partial information known. The flux distribution on the boundary of a fuel assembly is transformed into the probability distribution in the entropy expression. The most objective boundary flux distribution is then deduced by numerical evaluation of the Lagrange multipliers. This boundary flux distribution is used as the boundary condition in an embedded heterogeneous assembly calculation to provide the detailed flux distribution.