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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.
T. M. Sutton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 169-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-1
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An implementation of Wielandt’s method of eigenvalue shifting to accelerate the convergence of nodal expansion method (NEM) reactor calculations is presented. This particular formulation of the method greatly decreases the number of source iterations required for a particular degree of convergence while retaining most of the efficiency of a groupwise solution procedure for the inner iterations. The nature of the NEM equations causes Wielandt’s method to behave somewhat differently than when it is applied to the finite difference equations. Results are presented for well-known two- and three-dimensional benchmark problems.