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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.
Jörg Sapper
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1234-1240
Fusion Magnet Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963117
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The WENDELSTEIN 7-X Stellarator, construction of which is about to start at the IPP, is a further experiment in the small group of next-step fusion devices in the world. An essential goal of this machine is to demonstrate concept improvement towards the development of fusion devices. The magent system is designed for optimum stellarator plasma performance and the technical layout will allow steady-state plasma operation - an intrinsic property of stellarators. Consequently, the coil system is superconducting. The main technical parameters are: major radius Ro = 5.5 m, magnetic induction Bo = 3 T, stored magnetic energy Wm = 600 MJ, average plasma radius ro = 0.53 m. The magnet system comprises 50 nonplanar coils, modularly arranged in five periods. Twenty additional ancillary planar coils are arranged around the modular system. These coils serve only to provide experimental flexibility and, consequently, will not be necessary for a power producing fusion device.
