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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.
W. G. Winn, P. B. Parks, N. P. Baumann, C. E. Jewell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 254-272
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27155
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Unsymmetric perturbations were introduced into the core of a large, critical, heavy-water-moderated, multiregional reactor. The resulting three-dimensional changes in flux level and shape with time were measured. Perturbations included: 1. Free-fall insertion of rods near the reactor center. Each rod contained 235U slugs in the bottom half and lithium slugs in the top half 2. Free-fall insertion of rods into an off-center radial position. Each rod contained 235U slugs in the bottom half and aluminum in the top half. 3. Withdrawal of cadmium control rods from the central 20% of the reactor core. Flux tilts calculated with the TRIMHX code were within 5% of measured flux tilts. TRIMHX provides a three-dimensional (hex-z geometry) solution of the few-group neutron diffusion and delayed precursor equations without feedback. Inputs to the calculations are available in sufficient detail to allow other methods of solution to be tested.