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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. E. DICKERMAN, G. H. GOLDEN, L. E. ROBINSON
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 1 | September 1962 | Pages 30-36
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26197
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Fast reactor fuel sample meltdown experiments have been performed, in the TREAT reactor, with high speed color photography. EBR-II Mark-I and half-length Enrico Fermi Core-A type elements have been studied. In addition, preliminary experiments have been performed on EBR-II size UO2 samples. Sample conditions at the times of failures, types of failures, and rates of emission of material from the elements have been obtained. Course of failure following the initial emission of material is obscured, in the EBR-II sample case, by release of “clouds” of sodium originally present inside the element to effect a thermal bond between fuel and cladding. Photographic results were found to be consistent with previous deductions on sample failures obtained from opaque meltdown experiments.