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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.
Erik Johansson, Erik Jonsson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 3 | July 1962 | Pages 264-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26162
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This report presents an extension of neutron spectra measurements with a fast chopper, previously described by Johansson et al. (1). As before, the investigation concerns spectra of neutrons scattered from various materials placed in the central vertical channel of the reactor R1. Special interest has been devoted to the epithermal region; in particular to the distortion of the spectrum caused by the fuel. For scatterers with heavy atoms it has thus been possible to observe “steps” in E ·Φ (E) at each one of the three lowest uranium resonances. The heights of these steps compare fairly well to calculations. The upper energy limit for the present measurements is about 10,000 ev. Some experiments using a heated scatterer have also been performed partly to check results published earlier.