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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.
Patrick J. Roache
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 1 | September 1977 | Pages 219-221
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27092
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The title problem is considered from the viewpoint of one involved in aerodynamics problems, rather than reactor modeling. The status of opinion is briefly reviewed on two sources of error: errors due to discretization, especially in regard to “high cell Reynolds number” difficulties, and errors in the continuum equations, especially in regard to turbulence modeling. It is concluded that significant improvement is to be expected over the lumped-parameter codes, but that even the forthcoming codes based on simulation of the partial differential equations are expected to be limited to a rather crude level of accuracy.