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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.
K. Cheuk Chan, Harvey J. Amster
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 434-437
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26931
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Exact elementary functions for the value and first two lethargy derivatives of the collided neutron flux at source lethargy have been derived previously for a monoenergetic plane source in hydrogen, and the results have been used both to test calculational methods and to synthesize an elementary function for the entire spatially dependent slowing down distribution. In this Note, the exact elementary functions at source lethargy are generalized to allow: (a) any number and thicknesses of homogeneous slabs with faces parallel to the source plane, (b) each slab to be composed of any mixture of isotopes with arbitrary energy-dependent elastic scattering and absorption cross sections, and (c) any number of equally spaced cosine-weighted source planes.