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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.
M. V. Gregory, H. C. Honeck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 437-445
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26932
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Control algorithms for power-shaping calculations and critical rod bank position searches are described. The algorithms allow a flux computation module using a finite difference solution of the few-group neutron diffusion equations with coarse-mesh rebalancing to be directly extended to control calculations. The control algorithms are formulated as an extension of the standard critical buckling search by recasting the procedure for calculating the eigenvalue. A comparison of the power-shaping calculation with an equivalent keff calculation demonstrates that the former requires approximately the same number of outer iterations as the latter.