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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.
E. C. Wingfield and E. J. Hennelly
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 3 | March 1962 | Pages 348-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A28085
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Buckling measurements of 42 lattices of natural uranium 1-in. rods in heavy water have been made in an exponential facility at two moderator purities. The fuel assemblies were single rods and clusters of 3, 7, and 19 rods. Lattice pitches varied from 3.00 to 21.59 in. A comparison was made between the bucklings that were measured in the exponential facility and those that were obtained from critical measurements. On the basis of a constant radial buckling for the exponential, systematic differences between the exponential and critical measurements were noted. Possible causes of these differences are discussed. Experimental curves for changes in buckling produced by changes in moderator purity are also given.