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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.
G. L. Jackson, D. A. Humphreys, A. W. Hyatt, J. A. Leuer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 621-622
Appendix A | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) / Extended Abstracts | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11704
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Developing robust and reproducible start-up scenarios is essential for all tokamaks and especially for burning plasma devices. A tokamak start-up sequence is complex and calls on control of different types of plasmas, from nearly collisionless low-temperature electrons in a large neutral background to a more conventional diverted high-temperature fully ionized plasma during the ramp-up phase. [first paragraph from extended abstract]