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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.
A. A. van Well
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 10-15
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23871
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A recently developed stacked neutron guide system, installed at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute in Delft, The Netherlands, is described. It comprises two 3-m-long stacks of curved narrow neutron guides. This system is designed to transmit thermal neutrons by means of total reflection and, at the same time, attenuate fast neutrons and gamma radiation strongly. Comparison of calculated and measured flux densities shows an excellent transmission of the thermal neutrons. The measured fast neutron and gamma radiation dose-equivalent rates are consistent with the design values.