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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.
G. W. Hinman, G. F. Kuncir, J. B. Sampson, G. B. West
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 2 | June 1963 | Pages 202-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26500
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A method for determining Doppler broadening which is rigorous for a Maxwellian gas of resonance absorber atoms has been reduced to computation. Doppler broadened absorption cross sections for low-lying resonances of Er167 and Xe135 have been computed both by this more accurate method and by the ψ-function approximation which is in general use. The more accurate method was found to give a correction, compared with the ψ-function method, which was several percent in the case of Xe135 and was less than 1 % for Er167. The time required for the more accurate computation was found to be short enough to be practical for those special applications wehere it is of interest.