Framatone

Framatone is a French nuclear reactor business, majority owned by France electric. It first formed to license PWR reactorPWR reactorThis reactor is a PWR reactor - a pressurized water reactor. This is a specific type of Nuclear Reactor--in that it is pressurized water. This is also the most common type of reactor used and produced. The fuel rods are pressurized with helium, and the fission gas products result in more stability; as fuel "burns" in the reactor, the density increases resulting in small voids developing. Helium pressurization is necessary as these voids can cause potential rupture of fuel rods. Furthermore, the designs, and then went on to produce more nuclear reactor based products. Originally licensing and construction, it supplies the entire reactor life cycle, including the design of the EPR ReactorEPR ReactorA PWR reactor design, it is designed by Framatone, and the name is the European Pressurized reactor. The design service lifetime is 60 years. (This is mostly paraphrased from wikipedia :3) The main objectives is to be more economically competitive and still deliver power. It was designed to use uranium more efficiently then gen2 reactors, as it is a gen3 - and it uses "approximately 17% less uranium per kWh generated". The EPR design has several active and passive protection measures against & other tasks. (See Also: Hydrogen RecombinersHydrogen Recombinersactually called this Passive autocatalytic recombiner (Wikipedia) but this is a word jumble Most popular company that makes these is Framatone - which is a nuclear reactor based company. Hydrogen Recombiners are nifty devices that are integral to BWRs (and really most reactors). In the event of the zirconium alloy cladding on fuel rods mixing with the water, hydrogen is created, and this gas can lead to devastating explosions (Fukushima Reactor) Recombiners have plates/pellets coated with pla - Framatone built the leading hydrogen recombiner)