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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.
A. J. Elwyn, J. E. Monahan, F. J. D. Serduke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 343-346
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27047
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Thermonuclear reaction-rate and reactivity parameters calculated as a function of kT (for kT values from 1 to 1000 keV) are presented for all outgoing channels in nuclear reactions initiated by deuterons on 6Li. The results are based on recent experimental (d + 6Li) reaction cross sections and a newly derived cross-section extrapolation expression.
