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U.S.-based private capital group Apollo Global has committed £4.5 billion ($6.13 billion) in financing to EDF Energy, primarily to support the U.K.’s Hinkley Point C station. The move addresses funding needs left unmet since China General Nuclear Power Corporation—which originally planned to pay for one-third of the project—exited in 2023 amid U.K. government efforts to reduce Chinese involvement.
Myron F. Elgart, Harmon L. Finston, Robert Rundberg, Evan T. Williams, Albert H. Bond, Jr., Emmanuel Yellin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 58 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 291-297
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26778
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We describe a simple method for determining the neutron-absorption cross sections of radioactive nuclides and its application to 22Na and 126I. These nuclides are produced by fast-neutron reactions in cadmium-wrapped and unshielded samples simultaneously irradiated with cobalt flux wires. Values for the thermal cross section, σ0, the resonance integral, Σ′, and s0 are calculated from the data using the Westcott convention. The results are as follows: for 22Na, σ0 = (5.11 ± 0.31) × 104 b, s0 = 2.3 ± 0.1, and Σ′ = (1.0 ± 0.1) × 105 b; for 126I, σ0 = (9.0 ± 5.0) × 103 b.
