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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.
R. D. Werner, D. C. Santry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 98-100
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26626
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Deviations from normal mechanical properties observed in stainless steel irradiated by neutrons have been attributed to the production of helium in neutron reactions with nickel. A measurement of the thermal-neutron cross section for the 59Ni(n,α)56Fe reaction has been made in which the alpha-particle emission was determined by a silicon surface-barrier particle spectrometer. The 2200 m/sec cross section obtained is 18.0±1.6 b. This value disagrees with 13.7 ± 0.6 b reported earlier by Eiland and Kirouac.
