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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.
Kiyohiko Nishimura, Keisuke Matsuoka, Masami Fujiwara, Kozo Yamazaki, Jiro Todoroki, Tetsuo Kamimura, Tsuneo Amano, Heiji Sanuki, Shoichi Okamura, Minoru Hosokawa, Hiroshi Yamada, Shugo Tanahashi, Shin Kubo, Yasuyuki Takita, Tatsuo Shoji, Osamu Kaneko, Harukazu Iguchi, Chihiro Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 86-100
Technical Paper | Stellarator System | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29173
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The Compact Helical System was designed for research on transport in a low-aspect-ratio helical system. The machine parameters were chosen on the basis of a physics optimization study. Considerable effort was devoted to reducing error fields from current feeds and crossovers. The final machine parameters are as follows: major radius of 1 m; minor radius of the helical field coil of 0.313 m; plasma aspect ratio Ap = 5; pole number and toroidal period number of the helical field coil of l = 2 and m = 8, respectively; and helical pitch modulation of α = 0.3.
