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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.
Ander Gray, Andrew Davis, Edoardo Patelli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 802-812
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1895667
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper we perform nuclear data uncertain propagation with Total Monte Carlo, where the transport simulation is repeated for random evaluations of the data. The Oktavian Iron, Oktavian Nickel, and the Frascati Neutron Generator (FNG) neutron streaming SINBAD benchmarks were evaluated with OpenMC. Gaussian random deviates were drawn from the ENDF/B-VII.1 and TENDL-2017 libraries where the covariances were available. Uncertainty from multiple nuclides was propagated simultaneously assuming inter-nuclide independence. When the individual statistical uncertainty is negligible compared to the data uncertainty, then standard probability theory may be applied. If this is not the case and both need to be considered, we use Imprecise Probabilities (IP) to perform further analysis. We show how uncertain experimental data may be compared to uncertain simulation in the context of IP, and show how an uncertainty-based sensitivity analysis can be performed with IP.