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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.
Guillermo Velarde, Carolina Ahnert, José M. Aragonés
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 3 | June 1978 | Pages 284-294
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27213
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The time-dependent Boltzmann equation for neutron transport is transformed into eigenvalue equations in k, λ, γ, and α, whose general properties are stated as hypotheses. Numerical solutions are obtained with the discrete-ordinates code DTF, where a direct λ eigenvalue calculation has been added. Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are analyzed for idealized fast and thermal systems in both bare and reflected configurations. The differences found in these idealized cases provide some useful bases for estimating the behavior of the different eigenvalue solutions in specific applications.