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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.
Y. S. Lee, U. W. Nam, A. C. England, Z. Y. Chen, J. W. Yoo, W. C. Kim, Y. K. Oh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 501-505
Plasma Engineering - Fueling and Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST60-501
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A compact diagnostic system for monitoring Hard X-Ray (HXR) in the KSTAR tokamak has been developed in this work. Its development aims for an extension of the counting rate limit, and a good time resolution in the hard X-ray diagnostic. The all-in-one compact HXR diagnostic system is based on NaI(Tl) scintillation detector, because this scintillator provides reliable identification of the X-ray energy spectra with high efficiency. And in addition, the electronic equipment such as preamplifier, main amplifier, high voltage power supply, and fast analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a digital signal processor (DSP) system was built-in on boards as compact modules in the system. In particular, a fast ADC based on a DSP, and an amplifier with a shaping time of 100 ns was adopted to achieve 1 ms time resolution and a higher counting rate up to 1 MHz. This diagnostic system is intended to provide information on dynamic mechanisms of the high-energy electrons arising from when runaway electrons interact with plasma-facing components in the KSTAR tokamak.