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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.
U. Fischer, D. Leichtle, A. Serikov, P. Pereslavtsev, R. Villari
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 563-570
Nuclear Systems: Analysis and Experiments | 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-A19153
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Several methodologies have been developed for the calculation of shut-down dose rates based on the use of the Monte Carlo (MC) technique for particle transport simulations including the rigorous two-step (R2S) approach and its recent R2Smesh extension, the direct one-step (D1S) method which employs one single MC transport simulation both for neutrons and decay gammas, and a rough rule of thumb (RoT) approximation based on neutron flux-to-dose conversion factors. The paper discusses these approaches and their applications to ITER with focus on dose rate estimations for the equatorial Test Blanket and Diagnostic Ports. These applications are complemented by benchmark analyses on shut-down dose rate measurements performed on JET showing the validity of the R2S and D1S approaches.