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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.
Yasushi Yamamoto, Mai Ichinose, Fumito Okino, Kazuyuki Noborio, Satoshi Konishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 558-562
Blanket Design and Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12442
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In the design of the fusion blanket, it is important to gather generated tritium as quick as possible and supply them to a fuel supply system for keeping fuel cycle and reducing tritium inventories in the fusion reactor at the same time.In the advanced blanket concept which uses Lithium-Lead (LiPb) as the working fluid for heat removal, neutron shielding and tritium breeding, collection of generated tritium is thought not to be difficult as the solubility of hydrogen into the LiPb is small enough. But examination and design of these collecting systems was not fully studied.In this paper, we made the conceptual design of the tritium collecting device using vacuum sieve tray, and studied formation process of LiPb droplets by making a simple experimental device. It was found that droplets of about 0.9-mm radius were formed at 8~12-cm distance from nozzle when LiPb discharges from the nozzle with 1-mm diameter hole at pressure of 2.5×104 Pa. Using this value, it is estimated that the tritium collecting efficiency of 45% can be achieved with 1-m height single stage sieve tray at temperature of 500 °C.