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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.
E. Friedman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 2 | June 1964 | Pages 203-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28910
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A new method for measuring neutron thermalizaton parameters that was proposed on theoretical grounds is tested experimentally for H2O. The characteristic thermalization parameters in the present formulation are where are Laguerre polynomials of order unity and degree i and T is the temperature of the system expressed in energy units. The present experimental results for H2O can be described using one parameter. The result is γ11 = (0.210 ± 0.026)cm-1 for 23 C. The value of this parameter as derived from diffusion-cooling measurements lies in the range of 0.4cm-1 to 0.8cm-1. A possible explanation for this discrepancy is given. The value of γ11 as calculated on the basis of Nelkin's model is about four times higher than the present result.
