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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.
B. Grimeland, S. Messelt, L. Sund
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 3 | July 1962 | Pages 261-263
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26161
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Neutrons from a D(d, n)He3 neutron source, operating with 150 kev deuterons, were slowed down in blocks of paraffin wax. The distribution of 1.44 ev neutrons was measured with indium foils in five blocks of various dimensions, all facing the target with one of their end planes. The distribution was approximately the same in all blocks with thickness equal to or larger than 22 cm, which is about four times the slowing-down length in paraffin for (D, D) neutrons slowed down to 1.44 ev. Measurements were also made in a block of dimensions 50 x 50 x 100 cm3 with the target at the center. Even here the distribution of 1.44 ev neutrons was nearly the same as in the blocks already mentioned. The slowing-down age for (D, D) neutrons to 1.44 ev in paraffin wax, measured in the direction of the incoming deuteron beam, was found to be (33.0 ± 1.3) cm3.