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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.
S. A. Kushneriuk, J. M. Blair
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 1 | May 1976 | Pages 87-95
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26860
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Some solutions of the differential equations, which describe an elementary model of the disposition of material carried by a fluid flowing in a pipe, are derived and investigated. The solutions pertain to a variety of assumptions made regarding the initial concentrations of the material in the fluid within the pipe and on the pipe interior surface, and the concentration of the material in the fluid entering the pipe. The means of obtaining some of the model parameters using the derived solutions and measured values of the concentrations of matter on the pipe surface and in the fluid are illustrated.