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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.
P. J. Roberts, A. A. Harms
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 2 | February 1992 | Pages 200-204
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23890
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The dynamics of continuously fueled fission reactors based on an isothermal and nonlinear description of neutron/nuclide interactions is considered. In general, and for a plausible range of operational fueling conditions, such systems are absolutely stable, at most displaying converging spiral phase-space trajectories.