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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.
Thomas Rummel, W7-X Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 387-396
Plenary II | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A19128
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The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) experimental device is presently being built at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany.The modularity of the machine is achieved using five identical modules which form a torus of 16 meters outer diameter. Each module consists of a plasma vessel, ten non-planar main field coils, four planar coils and an outer vessel sector with ports. To achieve steady-state operation, the coils are superconducting. Two different plasma heating systems, ECRH and NBI, are planned for the first operation phase of W7-X.Module-based assembly is a new approach for large fusion machines. There are three main assembly steps of the core machine. First, half-modules are assembled from a plasma vessel section, five non-planar and two planar coils and related support structures. In the second step, two half-modules are connected to form a module. Then the five modules are connected, after which the outer vessel is closed.The paper reports on about the latest progress in assembly, highlighting the most challenging tasks, describes future work leading to the start of W7-X commissioning in 2014.