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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 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 541-545
Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963292
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A study was performed of a lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) cooled blanket with integral fast reactor-type fuel to burn actinides extracted from the fission reactor spent fuel. Detailed burn-up calculations were completed.
Performance parameters such as k-eff, tritium breeding ratio, and blanket energy multiplication during burn-up were obtained to assess the characteristics of a LBE cooled transmutation system. Technical issues associated with use of LBE for burning the transuranic actinides were identified.
