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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.
Y. Ikeda, C. Konno, Y. Oyama, K. Oishi, T. Nakamura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1287-1292
Blanket Nucleonics Experiment | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39867
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Neutron spectrum measurement based on the foil activation technique was carried out as a part of the JAERI/USDOE collaborative program on fusion blanket neutronics. The adequacy of the foil activation technique and the current dosimetry nuclear data for the D-T fusion neutron field were examined through the analysis of the spectrum in a Li2O blanket system enclosed with the Li2CO3. A method using a pair of activation indices (MPI) is newly proposed to evaluate the neutron flux around the MeV region of interest in a qualitative way. The multi-foil activation technique (MFA) with proper detector cross section data are promising to determine neutron spectra over a wide energy range.
