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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.
P. H. Kier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 2 | October 1966 | Pages 230-236
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A28165
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A method of calculating resonance absorption in a rod in a two-region circularized cell is developed. The method uses space-and lethargy-dependent neutron sources and, thus, includes overlapping and interference effects. An energy range of interest is divided into extremely narrow intervals of equal lethargy width. For each interval, the source distribution in each region is taken to be a three-term polynomial. By using this form for the source and the assumption that neutrons enter the rod isotropically, we obtain the reaction rates and the flux distribution for the interval. The reaction rates are used to obtain resonance integrals; the flux distribution is used to get the source distribution for lower energies. Calculations of the errors introduced into the resonance integral of the two closely spaced 232Th resonances by the assumption of flat sources are given, as well as calculations of the effects of interference in UO2-ThO2 mixtures, which lie within the errors of the experimental results obtained by Foell.