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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.
R. A. London, R. L. McEachern, B. J. Kozioziemski, D. N. Bittner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 45 | Number 2 | March 2004 | Pages 245-252
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A457
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A computational model is presented for infrared heating of frozen hydrogen layers in cryogenic ICF capsules. The model contains linked ray trace and heat conduction programs. The conduction part of the model has been validated with a cryogenic hohlraum experiment without infrared irradiation. The complete model has been used to design and analyze experiments on infrared layering of D2 in a hohlraum. The modeling provides an understanding of how to control the long scale length ice thickness perturbations by varying the infrared power balance and beam pointing. Based on the confidence developed in the model by comparison to experiment, design calculations are presented for IR layering systems for ICF ignition targets.