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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.
G.P. Rutledge, R. R. Eggleston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 4 | October 1958 | Pages 530-535
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A28829
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The relative reactivity worth of several B10F3 gaseous coupons has been determined at pressures up to 4.2 atmospheres. These worth values are compared with equivalent B10 loading as B4C dispersed (100 mesh or less) in stainless steel. Gaseous boron is more than five times as effective as the dispersed boron due to particle self-shielding. Bulk self-shielding becomes important only at high concentrations. The gaseous coupons are also compared with two alloy coupons (normal B10 and enriched B10).