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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.
C. R. Gould, J. R. Boyce
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26909
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Many reactions involving 6Li are of interest in studies of the performance of charged particle fusion reactor systems. We report measurements of the absolute cross sections for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction from 3 to 6 Me V and include the first estimates of the absolute magnitude of the three-body continuum cross section 6Li(3He, p)2α. The cross sections below 1 MeV are calculated from an s-wave Gamow extrapolation and are used to extract the Maxwell-averaged reaction rate for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction leading to the ground and first excited states of 8Be.
