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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.
Malte Edenius, Ake Ahlin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 3 | November 1988 | Pages 342-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29048
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The CASMO code is an assembly spectrum code that uses multigroup integral transport theory with four thermal energy groups for the two-dimensional calculation. The latest version, CASMO-3, contains several new features, specifically a new data library, multibundle capability, gamma detector calculation, flux discontinuity factor edit, and an option for generating transport theory corrected baffle/reflector data. Extensive benchmarking, including comparisons against cold- and high-temperature critical experiments, Monte Carlo calculations, measured isotopics, and power reactor core follow, has verified that accurate results are obtained. The new multibundle capability has been used for studies of interassembly spectrum coupling and for validation of core physics methods.