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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.
Daniela Farina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 1 | January 2008 | Pages 130-138
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Electron Cyclotron Wave Physics, Technology, and Applications - Part 2 | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1660
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The dispersion relation for electron cyclotron (EC) waves in a magnetized Maxwellian plasma is investigated for the cases of both the fully relativistic and the weakly relativistic resonance conditions. A compact form for the dielectric tensor is derived that is valid for frequencies close to any harmonic of the cyclotron frequency and at any given order in the Larmor radius expansion. This formulation is particularly suitable for implementation in numerical codes for the computation of EC absorption and emission. In ITER-like plasmas, it is shown that relativistic effects play a relevant role and that the absorption profile may differ appreciably from that obtained in the weakly relativistic approximation.
