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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.
J. U. Koppel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 1 | May 1963 | Pages 101-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26480
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The method of singular eigenfunctions introduced first by Van Kampen and developed later by Case and Mika in connection with a one-velocity transport problem, has been adapted in order to solve the time and energy dependent infinite medium problem. The expansion of neutron density and scattering kernel in series of Hermite functions reduces the Boltzmann equation to a system of homogeneous Hnear equations. The resulting set of regular and singular eigenfunctions is shown to be complete (if w∑nonelastic is assumed to increase monotonically with the neutron velocity w) and explicit formulas are found for the normalization integrals and Green's function.