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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.
K. Mishima, T. Hibiki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 327-338
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28582
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A quantitative method of image processing coupled with the neutron radiography technique is proposed to accurately measure the void fraction of a two-phase flow in a metallic duct. The spatial distribution of the dark current component is experimentally shown to be smooth, and the temporal variation cannot be ignored. Since the neutrons scattered in an object can be smoothed and reduced by setting the test section at a large distance from the converter, it is clarified that the corrections for the dark current and scattered neutrons can be represented by an offset. The offset value can be determined by using the total macroscopic cross section of the object (∑-scaling method). By comparing the calculated void fractions with the measured ones obtained by simulating the known void profile using a standard test section, the void fraction can be measured by this method within 2% error. The measurement error is estimated to be up to ∼10% when no correction for scattered neutrons is made or arbitrary offset values are used.