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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.
A. J. H. Donné
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | February 2012 | Pages 357-364
Diagnostics | Proceedings of the Tenth Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13522
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The ITER environment imposes many challenges for the various diagnostic systems. At the one hand diagnostic functionalities are required that go well beyond those at present devices. This is because there is a need to actively control (the profiles of) multiple plasma parameters, implying that measurement systems should be accurate and reliable. At the other hand the application of diagnostics at ITER is strongly hampered by constraints arising from the relatively harsh environmental conditions that give rise to phenomena that are new to the diagnostic designs. The nuclear environment puts stringent demands on the engineering and robustness of diagnostics, while the long pulse lengths require high stability of all systems. This paper will present an overview of the diagnostics for ITER with an additional glance in the further future.