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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.
Michael S. Milgram
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 67 | Number 3 | September 1978 | Pages 339-340
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27255
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Collision probabilities in spherical geometry are decomposed into a sum of Meijer's G functions, which are subsequently identified as the product of an exponential and a polynomial of finite degree and are hence easily computed. The series is then summed analytically, and the usual transport kernel for spherical geometry—the exponential integral—appears. A new form of the integral transport equation for the scalar flux is thus found.