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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.
R. J. Lawrence, L. C. Chhabildas
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 494-498
Technical Paper | The Technology of Fusion Energy - Inertial Fusion Technology: Targets and Chambers | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1537
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Fully understanding and controlling the strong shocks generated in an IFE environment is a complex issue that will require detailed simulations using multi-dimensional radiation-transport hydrocodes. However, simple one-dimensional numerical and analytical models can be used to set limits on the problem. One-dimensional shock propagation and attenuation in water is first examined as a surrogate for the first-wall working fluid, FLIBE; the effects of geometry, equation of state, and loading parameters are considered. Next, using the available properties of FLIBE, the energy deposition from a representative x-ray load is calculated, and is then used to develop an approximate scaling relation for the peak instantaneous pressure in the material. Finally, the energy-deposition results are used to estimate the blow-off impulse, which will drive the structural response of the containment.