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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.
Daisuke Kawasaki, Joonhong Ahn
Nuclear Technology | Volume 163 | Number 1 | July 2008 | Pages 137-146
Technical Paper | High-Level Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3977
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A method that utilizes a time-domain random-walk model with residence time distributions (RTDs) for radionuclides in a compartment has been developed and applied to a safety assessment model for geologic disposal of high-level radioactive wastes. By choosing a proper RTD, which can be determined by a detailed model for radionuclide transport in a compartment, the present compartment model can simulate radionuclide transport through a repository region without numerical dispersion due to coarse discretization. The method has been demonstrated and illustrated for the case that the physical transport processes in a compartment and the corresponding RTD are known. For an actual performance assessment for a geologic repository, in which multiple waste packages are placed in an array configuration, it is considered that the repository-scale transport simulation can be greatly modularized and simplified by obtaining an RTD around a single package.