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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.
Yu.M. Ado, A.G. Ufimtsev, V.V. Artisyuk, A. Yu. Konobeyev, Yu.A. Korovin, V.M. Murogov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 683-688
Accelerator/Reactor Waste Transmutation | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946919
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A sharp increase in the efficiency of neutron generation is caused by cyclic deuteron accumulator with internal deuteron or beryllium target. In this accumulator, beam of deuterons of constant energy pass through the target many times with ionization energy loss compensated by high frequency electric field. Advantages of deuteron accelerator of 30-100 MeV is due to two factors: On the one hand, the desire to decrease the charged particle energy 10-30 times compared with a traditional electronuclear process plants and, on the other hand, the prospect of producing neutrons within a range of energies of greater interest for fusion studies and for efficiently burning high level nuclear wastes from nuclear power plants.