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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.
J. K. Dickens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 101-109
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27011
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Interactions of neutrons with 208Pb have been studied by measuring photon production cross sections. Gamma-ray spectra were obtained at incidentneutron energies of 4.9, 5.4, 6.4, 6.95, 7.45, and 8.0 MeV with a gamma-ray detector system utilizing a 48-cm3 Ge(Li) detector. Nearly monoenergetic neutrons were obtained from the D(d, n) reaction using deuterons obtained from the (pulsed) Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5-MV Van de Graaff accelerator. Time-of-flight was used to discriminate against pulses due to neutrons and background radiation. Extracted differential and total inelastic cross sections have been compared with previous measurements and with data from the ENDF/B evaluation with generally satisfactory results. New information on the level structure of 208Pb is reported. Data were also obtained at En = 5.4 MeV for a sample of natural bismuth, and new information on the level structure of 209Bi was obtained. Differential gamma-ray production cross sections were obtained, and the total inelastic cross section at En = 5.4 MeV was deduced from these data.
