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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.
V. S. Udintsev, G. Vayakis, A. E. Costley, K. M. Patel, C. S. Pitcher, C. I. Walker, M. J. Walsh, M. Benchikhoune, D. Bora, A. Dammann, M. A. Henderson, B. Levesy, A. Tesini, S. Danani, H. Pandya, P. Vasu, M. E. Austin, P. E. Phillips, W. L. Rowan, R. Feder, D. Johnson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 4 | May 2011 | Pages 678-683
Technical Paper | Sixteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC-16) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11733
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This paper explains the present status of the ITER electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostic and gives an outlook on the upcoming technical and design activity. The open questions of calibration and stability of ECE systems, as well as proposals for the calibration, the design of the front end, and the transmission line are reviewed. The possible role of ECE in the neoclassical tearing mode detection and stabilization by electron cyclotron heating is also discussed. Because integration of the ITER ECE diagnostic within the tokamak requires proper definition of interfaces with many different components located both in-vessel and ex-vessel, a special attention is paid to address the associated issues.