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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.
T. Görler, A. E. White, D. Told, F. Jenko, C. Holland, T. L. Rhodes
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | April 2016 | Pages 537-545
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-182
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Over the last decade, plasma turbulence simulations based on gyrokinetic theory have reached an amazing degree of physical comprehensiveness and realism. In contrast to early gyrokinetic studies, which were restricted to qualitative statements, state-of-the-art investigations may now be compared quantitatively, therefore enabling validation and detailed analysis of their predictive capabilities. Here, particular attention is paid to outer-core L-mode discharges for which some previous gyrokinetic studies have found an underprediction of ion heat transport by almost one order of magnitude, the so-called shortfall. Carrying out radially local and nonlocal GENE simulations using actual plasma profiles and parameters and magnetohydrodynamic equilibria, and employing as much physics as available, only a mild underprediction is found, which can, furthermore, be overcome by varying the ion temperature gradient within the error bars associated with the experimental measurement. The significance and reliability of these simulations is furthermore demonstrated by extensive comparison with experimental measurements. The latter involve sophisticated synthetic beam emission spectroscopy and correlation electron cyclotron emission data analysis. The agreement found between the measurements and the state-of-the-art postprocessed simulation data confirms the high degree of realism.