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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 382-386
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947111
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The need for a flexible experimental facility, capable of studying several alternate confinement concepts simultaneously, is discussed. A facility suitable for both spherical tokamak (ST) and Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) studies is examined. Such a facility could advance the physics database of both concepts at a minimum cost. An International Center for Alternate Confinement Studies is proposed to develop such facilities and to provide opportunities for international collaboration in this critical area.