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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. Gwin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 428-431
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26929
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The analysis of critical volumes of aqueous homogeneous solutions of uranium to aid in defining the 2200 m/sec neutron parameters for ENDF/B has been examined. The parameters for 233U and 235U are constrained by relating to the constant K obtained from the analysis of the critical systems. Here K is directly proportional to the hydrogen capture cross section at 2200 m/sec. This Note suggests that the capture cross section of hydrogen be removed from K and that a new constant K/σaH be defined by the critical systems. This new constant is the hydrogen-to-uranium ratio for an infinite critical system populated with neutrons having a Maxwellian energy distribution.