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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
E.T. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 541-545
Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963292
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A study was performed of a lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) cooled blanket with integral fast reactor-type fuel to burn actinides extracted from the fission reactor spent fuel. Detailed burn-up calculations were completed.
Performance parameters such as k-eff, tritium breeding ratio, and blanket energy multiplication during burn-up were obtained to assess the characteristics of a LBE cooled transmutation system. Technical issues associated with use of LBE for burning the transuranic actinides were identified.
