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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
June 14–18, 2009
Advancing Nuclear Technology for a Greater Tomorrow
Atlanta, GA
Pre-registration is now closed. Please register on-site.
General Chair:
Jeffrey T. Gasser (Southern Nuclear Operating Company)
Program Chair:
Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Dr. Charles (Chip) Martin (Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board)
Kurshad Muftuoglu (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
Embedded Topical
Formerly Space Nuclear Conference.
General Chairs:
Samit Bhattacharyya (Savannah River Site)
George Schmidt (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Technical Program Chairs:
Shannon Bragg-Sitton (Texas A&M University)
Michael Houts (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Steven D. Howe (Idaho National Laboratory Center for Space Nuclear Research)
John Scott (NASA Johnson Space Center)
