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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.
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
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
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.