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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.
E. T. Tomlinson, J. C. Robinson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 2 | June 1977 | Pages 167-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27020
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A method is developed for obtaining solutions to the Boltzmann neutron transport equation on irregular triangular grids with nonorthogonal boundaries and anisotropic scattering. A functional is developed from the canonical form of the multigroup transport equation. The angular variable is then removed by expanding the functional in spherical harmonics, retaining only the first two flux moments and limiting the scattering to be linearly anisotropic. The finite element method is then implemented using quadratic Lagrange-type interpolating polynomials to span the spatial domain. The resultant set of coupled linear equations is then solved iteratively using the block successive over-relaxation method. A number of numerical experiments are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The results are compared to the results obtained by various established methods. In all cases, aggrement is excellent.