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Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.
The agreement, reportedly worth multiple billions of euros, was announced this week and will involve Framatome from the design phase until commissioning. The company also agreed to a long-term fuel supply deal. Framatome is 80.5 percent owned by France’s EDF and 19.5 percent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Dr. Joseph R. Dietrich served as president of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) from 1977-1978. In addition, he served on the Society’s Board of Directors from 1958 to 1961, and again from 1977 to 1980. He was a Fellow of ANS.
Dr. Dietrich was internationally known for a pioneering career in nuclear power reactor development that spanned more than thirty years.
He was born on August 25, 1914 and began his nuclear career in 1946, when he joined the Daniels Pile development project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 1948, he moved to Argonne National Laboratory, where he was in charge of reactor physics and shielding design for the prototype nuclear power plant for the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine. At Argonne he was also in charge of the planning, theory, and experimental instrumentation for the BORAX experiments, at the conclusion of which he directed the physics work for the experimental boiling water reactor. During 1953-54, Dietrich took part in the first large-scale reactor safety experiments at the National Reactor Testing Station.
In 1956, with the founding of General Nuclear Engineering Corporation, he joined the company as a vice president. Later, after the company had been purchased by Combustion Engineering, Inc., Dietrich became chief scientist in Combustion Engineering’s Nuclear Power Systems Division, a position he held until his retirement in February 1980.
Dr. Dietrich earned his B.S. in physics and chemistry from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, and M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from University of Virginia in 1937 and 1939, respectively.
Dr. Joseph R. Dietrich passed away on November 4, 1982.
Read Nuclear News from July 1977 for more on Joseph R. Dietrich.
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