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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.
Wolfgang Rothenstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 162-171
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29086
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A formula for the escape probabilities of neutrons from the fuel lumps to the moderator and vice versa in a lattice is derived and the validity of simple approximations discussed. These formulas are applied to solve the coupled integral equations for the collision densities in a lattice. First-order corrections to the resonance integral are obtained both for the Narrow Resonance and the Narrow Resonance Infinite Absorber approximations. Numerical results are given for water lattices containing hexagonal arrays of U238 rods, of 0.25 and 0.60 in. diameter, at different water-to-metal volume ratios.