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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.
S. M. González de Vicente, A. Moroño, E. R. Hodgson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 125-128
Plasma Engineering and Diagnostics | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8888
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Reliable plasma diagnostic systems are key elements for an efficient and safe operation of future fusion reactors. These systems use particular components, such as ceramic insulators, dielectric and optical windows, optical fibres and complete sensor assemblies. These materials, in addition to neutron and gamma radiation, will be subjected to bombardment by low energy ions and neutral particles. Alumina (Al2O3) is one of the insulating candidate materials to be used in diagnostic systems for ITER, where it will play important roles as electrical insulation and in optical components. Possible material damage has been examined by implanting He into sapphire at different temperatures to simulate ion bombardment. The electrical conductivity in the implanted region increases by more than nine orders of magnitude. Such severe surface electrical degradation is due to the loss of oxygen from the implanted surface. The loss of oxygen also reduces the material band gap in the surface region and as a consequence the optical transmission is severely reduced. Implantation temperature plays an important role, where one observes that although electrical degradation is higher for higher temperature implantation, optical degradation is lower. The electrical conductivity in the implanted region increases by more than nine orders of magnitude. Such severe surface electrical degradation is due to the loss of oxygen from the implanted surface. The loss of oxygen also reduces the material band gap in the surface region and as a consequence the optical transmission is severely reduced. Implantation temperature plays an important role, where one observes that although electrical degradation is higher for higher temperature implantation, optical degradation is lower.