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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.
Joel H. Ferziger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 3 | November 1962 | Pages 244-248
doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26213
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An extension of the methods for computing resonance integrals given by Chernick and Vernon (8) and Nordheim et al. (9) to the case of nonuniform temperature distributions in the absorber is given. Formally, the procedure is quite similar to the previous work and utilizes the same approximations: absorbed neutrons are broken into two groups according to whether their previous collisions were in the absorber or in the moderator; both the narrow resonance (NR) and infinite mass (NRIA) approximations are developed. The effect of nonuniform temperature distribution is to modify the escape probabilities required. The present calculation requires escape probabilities for lumps which contain nonuniform sources and/or cross sections. Methods of computing these escape probabilities are presented.