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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
A. W. Hare, S. Aifant, F. A. Rough, D. I. Slnizer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 1 | May 1961 | Pages 24-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25925
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The results of the postirradiation examinations on UC compounds having nominal compositions of 4.6, 4.8, and 5.0 w/o C continue to be encouraging after irradiation to approximate burnups of from 1000 to 15,000 MWD/Ton of U. Density changes were small varying from a minimum of 0.7% to a maximum of about 2.5%. Cracking has occurred in all specimens, however, it can probably be largely attributed to thermal stresses. Depletion of carbon is occurring in the specimens having the nominal 5 w/o C composition. Metallographic examination shows that these specimens appear to revert to the 4.8 w/o C stoichiometric composition. The fission gas retention properties of this material appear quite good. In all cases, the amount of fission gas released is comparable to the calculated amount released by recoil.