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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.
F.-J. Hambsch, I. Ruskov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 156 | Number 1 | May 2007 | Pages 103-114
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2689
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The 10B(n,0)/10B(n,1) branching ratio has been measured at the Geel linear accelerator based time-of-flight spectrometer in the incident neutron energy range from 0.1 keV up to 2 MeV. A twin Frisch-grid ionization chamber has been used with two very thin 10B samples mounted back-to-back on the common cathode. This type of ionization chamber made it possible to measure both the energy and the angular distribution of the emitted reaction products (alpha particles and 7Li nuclei) with a clear separation of both reaction channels: emission to the ground state (0) and first excited state (1). The branching ratio 10B(n,0)/10B(n,1) was found to be in good agreement with the ENDF/B-VI evaluation up to ~1 MeV incident neutron energy. At higher energies (>1 MeV), a clear deviation is observed. The present branching ratio data have been entered into the ongoing International Atomic Energy Agency Coordinated Research Project on "Improvement of the Standard Cross Sections for Light Elements." A preliminary R-matrix calculation reproduces the measured branching ratio in the whole energy range up to ~2 MeV.