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Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.
The agreement, reportedly worth multiple billions of euros, was announced this week and will involve Framatome from the design phase until commissioning. The company also agreed to a long-term fuel supply deal. Framatome is 80.5 percent owned by France’s EDF and 19.5 percent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Hyeong Il Kim, M. Herman, S. F. Mughabghab, P. Oblozinský, D. Rochman, Young-Ouk Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 2 | October 2008 | Pages 168-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE160-168
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron cross sections for a complete set of Nd isotopes, 142,143,144,145,146,147,148,150Nd, were evaluated in the incident energy range from 10-5 eV to 20 MeV. In the low-energy region, including thermal and resolved resonances, our evaluations are based on the latest data published in the Atlas of Neutron Resonances, Fifth Edition: Resonance Parameters and Thermal Cross Sections, Z = 1 - 100. In the unresolved resonance region, we performed additional evaluation by using the averages of the resolved resonances and adjusting them to the experimental data. In the fast neutron region, we used the nuclear reaction model code EMPIRE-2.19 validated against the experimental data. The results are compared to the existing nuclear data libraries, including ENDF/B-VI.8, JENDL-3.3, and JEFF-3.1, and to the available experimental data. The new evaluations are suitable for neutron transport calculations, and they were adopted by the new U.S. evaluated nuclear data ENDF/B-VII.0, released in December 2006.