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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
Donald L. Keller, Lewis E. Hulbert, Bruce W. Dunnington
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 2 | October 1961 | Pages 154-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A28060
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The complexities of the structure of dispersion fuels and of irradiation conditions makes interpretation of irradiation experiments difficult. A method is suggested for consideration of irradiation conditions independently of material variables so long as these variables are held constant. Estimates are made of the relative severity of experiments made on identical specimens under different experimental conditions. A numerical application of the analysis was made to specimens of 18-8 stainless steel with 25 and 30 w/o UO2. Approximate failure limits for both specimen compositions are obtained although both sets of data are very limited. Further experimentation is needed to more fully establish the limits of the application of the proposed model.
