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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.
Masahiro Saito
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 399-403
Biology | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22619
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In a series of experiments, the dosimetry of OBT in the mice supplied with THO or OBT directly or indirectly from their mothers was studied. In the offspring mice nursed by mother mice supplied with THO as drinking water, the largest contribution of OBT to the total accumulated dose was found in the brain. The percent contribution of OBT to the total dose distributed between 17 and 42% among various soft tissues. The OBT localization to cell nuclei increases the microscopic dose to cell nuclei by a factor of 3 – 6 in the case of DNA-bound tritium in comparison with the dose estimated from the tissue-averaged tritium concentration. The tritium localization is of less importance in the case of protein-bound tritium. The blood level tritium was found to be useful and convenient for OBT dosimetry in a practical case of radiation protection of humans after acute and chronic intake of tritium. A new technique was developed to isolate mouse red bone marrow from tibia. A model experiment using mice has shown that the dose to red bone marrow in the case of oral THO intake was lower than the dose estimated for the blood pool.