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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. W. Hardie, R. E. Schenter, R. E. Wilson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 3 | July 1975 | Pages 222-238
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26754
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Measured integral quantities such as keff, central reaction-rate ratios, and central reactivity coefficients for 18 fast critical assemblies were calculated using the ENDF/B-IV neutron cross-section set. The correlations between calculation and experiment using Version IV were then compared to those obtained with earlier cross-section data, specifically, Versions I, II, and III of ENDF/B and the Bondarenko cross-section set. In general, ENDF/B-IV was found to do an excellent job of calculating keff. However, discrepancies between calculation and experiment did exist for both reaction-rate ratios and reactivity coefficients. Of particular interest, the fissile-fuel central-worth discrepancy for plutonium assemblies was found to be ∼20%.
