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Flamanville-3 reaches full power
France’s state-owned electric utility EDF has announced that Flamanville-3—the country’s first EPR—reached full nuclear thermal power for the first time, generating 1,669 megawatts of gross electrical power. This major milestone is significant in terms of both this project and France’s broader nuclear sector.
Chizuo Mori, Masayuki Tojo, Katsuo Yanagida, Junichi Goto, Akira Uritani, Hiroshi Miyahara, Yuyan Wu, Katsuhisa Kudo, Naoto Takeda, Yujiro Ikeda, Yoshimi Kasugai, Toshiyuki Iida, Yoichi Sakuma, Mamiko Sasao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1134-1138
Neutronics Experiments and Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963101
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A new type of fast neutron spectrometer composed of a proportional counter with methane and a Si semiconductor detector was constructed for the measurement of plasma-temperature. Methane can act as recoil-proton converter and also as energy loss measurement of the proton in the converter. Si detector, off-centered to avoid radiation damage, measures the rest energy of the recoil-proton. The energy resolutions were 2.4 % for 5 MeV neutrons and 2.9 % for 14 MeV neutrons.
