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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
L. Giancarli, F. Barbier, T. Flament, M. Futterer, P. Leroy, E. Proust, J. Sannier, X. Raepsaet, A. Terlain, V. Coen, A. Perujo, T. Sample, G. Benamati, P. Agostini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2075-2080
Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30027
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The European R&D programme in support of the development of water-cooled Pb-17Li blankets for DEMO aims at improving the data base concerning tritium behaviour and compatibility between blanket materials. The four main areas of the experimental programme are structural material corrosion by Pb-17Li, tritium extraction and permeation control, Pb-17Li physico-chemistry, and water/Pb-17Li interaction. This paper describes the most significant results obtained to date in the various experiments performed in Europe and the future programme required to complete the data base by 1994.
