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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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.
P. T. Guenther, D. G. Havel, A. B. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 174-180
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27140
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Differential elastic neutron scattering cross sections of 206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb, and 209Bi are measured at incident neutron energy intervals of ∼25 keV from 0.6 to 1.0 MeV. Optical model parameters are obtained from the energy-averaged experimental results for each of the isotopes. The 209Bi model was selected for extrapolation to 238U by introducing a small (N - Z)/A dependence and the known deformation of 238U. Calculated results are descriptive of 238U total neutron cross sections from a few hundred keV to >15.0 MeV and of recently measured differential 238U elastic and inelastic neutron scattering distributions at energies of 3.0 MeV, including new experimental values explicitly obtained for these comparisons. The model and the measurements imply total 238U inelastic neutron scattering cross sections considerably larger than in common applied usage.
