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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.
Jordi Villar Colomé, Jean Johner, Jean Marc Ané
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 3 | May 1997 | Pages 321-332
Technical Paper | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30835
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The safety of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor will depend on the ability of the system to quickly extinguish the 1.5 GW of nominal fusion power without disruption. The local Rebut-Lallia-Watkins transport model is used to simulate such a fast-burn termination. The conditions for a passively safe operating point in steady state are discussed in terms of particle exhaust capability and tritium fuel fraction. The timescales of the process could determine the design of the poloidal field system.
