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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.
L. Finkelstein, A. Krumbein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 2 | June 1976 | Pages 113-119
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26867
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A class of partial differential equations is considered that is directly connected with the transport equation. It is shown that if the initial-boundary conditions are specified on a given net as univariate quadratic splines, then there exists a bivariate quadratic spline unique on the net that satisfies exactly the initial boundary conditions and satisfies the differential equation at the nodes of the net. The spline is then constructed by an exact finite-difference scheme. As a first application we provide a new algorithm for a spherically symmetric problem in neutron transport theory. This is further illustrated by numerical examples.