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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.
Rolf Pettersson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 4 | December 1992 | Pages 375-382
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23986
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The linear, space-inhomogeneous transport equation for a distribution function (describing, for instance, a neutron distribution) in a bounded body with general boundary conditions is considered. Results on weak convergence to equilibrium, when t→ ∞, are given for general initial data, first in the cutoff case and then for infinite-range collision forces. To handle these problems, general H theorems (concerning monotonicity in time of convex entropy functionals) are presented. Furthermore, general results on collision invariants, i.e., on functions satisfying detailed balance relations in a binary collision, are given.