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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.
Karl Richter, Jean Gueugnon, Gerard Kramer, Carlo Sari, Paul Werner
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 3 | September 1985 | Pages 401-407
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A15966
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For fabrication of MX-type (M = actinides; X = carbon and/or nitrogen) advanced fuels, for example, uranium-plutonium carbides for the fast breeder, the carbothermic reduction process of oxides, with subsequent crushing and ballmilling of the reaction product, pressing, and sintering has been generally adopted. A new fabrication procedure, the direct pressing (DP) method, based on the carbothermic reduction process, is presented, however, without intermediate comminution. The fuel is directly processed to pellets. MX powder handling and dust generation within the working area are avoided. The principle and advantages of the new fabrication procedure are reported. The feasibility of the DP method has been demonstrated in laboratory scale on (U,Pu)C fuel pellet preparation. Fuel data compared with the conventional method are given.