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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.
Lawrence N. Oji, David T. Hobbs, Paul D. d'Entremont
Nuclear Technology | Volume 145 | Number 2 | February 2004 | Pages 204-214
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT04-A3470
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Laboratory-scale results on experiments performed to examine the feasibility of isotopic dilution of 235U in supernatant liquid storage tanks at the Savannah River Site are described. The isotopic dilution tests were accomplished by adding an alkaline depleted uranium solution to small portions of simulated and actual storage tank waste solutions with enriched 235U compositions. Based on the laboratory observations, recommendations were made, which involved the addition of significant quantities of uranyl carbonate solution to more than 4 million l of 235U enriched waste stored in tank 43H at the site to reduce the risk for criticality.A post-uranyl carbonate addition analysis on the tank supernate confirmed the effectiveness of depleted uranium in isotopic dilution of 235U. The 235U enrichment in tank 43H was isotopicaly diluted from an original high of >4 wt% down to <0.5 wt%, as predicted from the laboratory investigations.