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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.
Kazuyuki Takase, Tomoaki Kunugi, Yasushi Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1459-1464
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963154
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As one of thermofluid safety studies in ITER, buoyancy-driven exchange flow behavior through breaches of the vacuum vessel was investigated quantitatively using a preliminary LOVA (Loss Of VAcuum event) apparatus which simulated the Tokamak vacuum vessel of a fusion reactor with a small-scaled model. Helium gas and air were used as the working fluids. Experimental parameters were breach position, breach number, breach length, breach diameter, breach combination and the wall temperature of the VV. The present study showed that the relationship between the exchange rate and time depended on the magnitude of the potential energy from the ground level to the breach position and the wall temperature of the vacuum vessel. The exchange rate decreased as the breach length increased and the breach diameter decreased.
