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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.
John T. Hogan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 1 | September 1977 | Pages 2-17
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27072
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We describe the Oak Ridge Tokamak Transport Code. This code computes the number, momentum, and energy balance for particles and follows the evolution of tokamak poloidal and toroidal fields. The magnetic geometry is two dimensional, with solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equation providing flux surface topology. The velocity-space description of fast injected ions is also two dimensional, and the Fokker-Planck equation is solved for the injected species. Transport per se involves six coupled nonlinear partial differential equations, while the treatment of the plasma-wall interface requires the solution of 14 zero-dimensional rate equations. The XSDRN neutron and photon transport code has been adapted to serve as a neutral gas transport module. Some examples illustrating problems of present interest are presented.