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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Hinkley Point C gets over $6 billion in financing from Apollo
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.
Y. Ronen, D. Shvarts, J. J. Wagschal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 1 | May 1976 | Pages 97-101
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26862
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A comparison of the limitations of the eigenvalues for the effective neutron multiplication factor per neutron generation, k, the multiplication factor per collision, γ, and the fundamental multiplication rate, α, is presented as they concern the neutron spectrum and the spectral properties of the integral transport operators. Numerical examples of analyses of fastneutron plutonium systems are given. Advantages of the rarely used γ eigenvalue are discussed, leading to the main conclusion of this presentation that it should be used more often.
