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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.
C. N. Kelber, L. C. Just, N. F. Morehouse, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 3 | November 1961 | Pages 285-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A26005
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In reactor kinetics problems where it is desirable to take the space dependence of reactor flux into account, the time dependent diffusion equation must be solved. The solution of this equation on an analog computer requires a large amount of equipment. If the equation is written the form, where the volume integral of the divergence of neutron current has been replaced by the surface integral of the current, then a large reduction in the number of mesh points and consequently in the amount of equipment is possible. An example is given and compared with the flux distribution computed on a digital machine.