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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.
M. Yamagiwa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1997 | Pages 218-222
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24268
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Production of 18F, a positron emitter, with fast protons from D-3He fusion reactions and oxygen (18O) impurities in a large tokamak is studied numerically. A high-energy deuterium beam is used for proton production enhancement. The yield of 18F is found to be optimized in a somewhat dirty plasma with an effective ionic charge number of Zeff ∼ 5 and doubled by the inclusion of the possible resonance in the 18O(p,n)18F reaction. The yield in the deuterium beam-injected 3He plasma is 1000 times larger than by standard methods using a cyclotron. A comparison is also made with the yield in an advanced plasma regime.