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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.
Song Wengang, Zhang Lijun, Wang Guanying, Li Qiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 292-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1747838
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Sallen-Key filter is frequently used to realize radiation detector pulse shaping. To improve the performance of the digital pulse-shaping algorithm, we establish the full parameter Kirchhoff’s Current Law equations of the analog Sallen-Key circuit. Synthesizing these equations, a second-order nonhomogeneous difference equation is obtained. By analyzing the symmetry degree of the response function of the difference equation, an optimal pulse-shaping algorithm is derived. Given any shaping time, the parameters needed by this algorithm can be calculated easily. As well, this algorithm has no limitation on gain parameter and no undershoot. Simulation and field-programmable gate array test results validate the feasibility of the new algorithm.