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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.
C. Eggler, C. M. Huddleston, V. E. Krohn, G. R. Ringo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 5 | October 1956 | Pages 391-408
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A28777
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The neutron spectra at two positions in the core and two positions in the inner blanket of the Experimental Breeder Reactor in Idaho have been measured by means of beams extracted from these positions. The energy range covered was from 75 kev to 4 Mev. A cloud chamber was used for the measurement from 75 kev to 1 Mev and recoil-proton tracks in nuclear plates for that from 0.8 to 4 Mev. Reaction rate ratios measured inside the reactor agree well with those calculated from known cross sections and the spectra found in the beams.