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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.
Linfeng Yan, Dawei Wang, Hsingtzu Wu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 12 | December 2022 | Pages 1822-1831
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2083750
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A passive residual heat removal system plays an important role in cooling the reactor core under accident conditions. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package ANSYS Fluent is used to analyze the influence of malfunction of any 2 of 12 tubes of a passive residual heat removal heat exchanger (PRHR HX) on its performance. Then the computation was validated using the published experimental data. Five different scenarios and a normal condition are computed to analyze the influence of locations of the malfunctioning tubes on the heat transfer performance of the PRHR HX. The results show that the tube defect reduces the amount of heat transferred by the PRHR HX. However, it is correlated with the size of the surface area of the deficient tubes instead of their locations. In other words, analysis suggests that defect tubes with the same surface area should result in similar damage regardless of the location.