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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.
W. PRIMAK
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1957 | Pages 117-125
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25381
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The ratio of the damage rates in graphite irradiated in the converter and VT-4 of CP-3′ are explained in terms of the different flux spectra which existed in the respective irradiation facilities. This interpretation requires that the statistical quantity of damage resulting from a scattering event involving a neutron of given energy be nearly constant above 105 ev, and this in turn implies that the statistical amount of damage produced by a carbon atom of given energy is nearly constant above 104 ev and is in agreement with Seitz's theory. Good agreement is found between the rate at which disturbances in the lattice are accumulated and the rate of carbon atom displacement calculated from Seitz's theory, but this is not considered especially significant since the parameters had originally been adjusted to fit experimental data.