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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.
H. Gerstenberg, W. Gläser
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 50-55
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23875
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The low-temperature irradiation facility, Tieftemperatur-Bestrahlungsanlage (TTB), at the 4-MW Munich Research Reactor (Forschungsreaktor München — FRM) makes it possible to perform neutron irradiations at liquid helium temperature. Two irradiation positions exhibiting different neutron spectra are available. The possible integration of suitable measuring or transfer cryostats into the liquid helium circuit of the TTB allows the use of this facility for the study of a large variety of neutron irradiation effects in basic research as well as in materials sciences. Besides a description of the general experimental setup, some topics of current TTB research are briefly summarized.