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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.
Patrick J. Roache
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 1 | September 1977 | Pages 219-221
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27092
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The title problem is considered from the viewpoint of one involved in aerodynamics problems, rather than reactor modeling. The status of opinion is briefly reviewed on two sources of error: errors due to discretization, especially in regard to “high cell Reynolds number” difficulties, and errors in the continuum equations, especially in regard to turbulence modeling. It is concluded that significant improvement is to be expected over the lumped-parameter codes, but that even the forthcoming codes based on simulation of the partial differential equations are expected to be limited to a rather crude level of accuracy.