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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.
Ivan Strasik, Ekaterina Kozlova, Edil Mustafin, Ingo Hofmann, Andrey Smolyakov, Nikolai Sobolevsky, Ludmila Latysheva, Marius Pavlovic
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 3 | December 2009 | Pages 643-647
Accelerators | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (PART 3) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9282
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Quantification of residual activity is an important issue for high-power accelerator facilities like the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR). While beam losses of 1 W/m are at present accepted for proton machines as a tolerable level for ensuring "hands-on" maintenance, the beam-loss tolerances for high-energy heavy-ion accelerators have not yet been quantified. The Monte Carlo particle transport codes FLUKA and SHIELD were used to simulate the irradiation of copper and stainless steel by different ions (1H, 4He, 12C, 20Ne, 40Ar, 84Kr, 132Xe, 197Au, and 238U) with energies typical for FAIR machines. Copper and stainless steel were chosen as common materials for accelerator structures. The isotope inventory contributing >90% to the total residual activity does not depend on the projectile species; it depends only on the target material and projectile energy. The activity per watt induced by a 1 GeV/u heavy ion is lower than the activity per watt induced by a 1-GeV proton. A tolerable beam-loss level for a 1 GeV/u 238U beam was found to be [approximately]5 W/m.