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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.
S. K. Trikha, S. C. Jain
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 180-182
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27141
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Some theoretical calculations concerning the diffusion of thermal neutrons (2.5 × 10−4 to 0.7 eV) across an absorption discontinuity in water assemblies consisting of pure water on one side and the water solutions of boron (a 1/v absorber) having different concentrations on the other side have been performed by solving the Boltzmann transport equation in the diffusion approximation using the multigroup formalism. The Nelkin scattering kernel of water at 293 K has been tried in the present case. At the boundary, the equilibrium neutron distribution is disturbed and is reestablished to the equilibrium distribution of the second medium within a few centimetres from the boundary. The diffusion lengths so obtained show a good agreement with the experimental results of Martinho and Costa Paiva.