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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.”
A. Krämer-Flecken
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 387-394
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1138
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The measurement of plasma quantities is a difficult task since the plasma cannot be treated like normal material. Any measurement of plasma quantities with electrostatic probes will yield interactions with the plasma and causes a perturbation of the measured quantity. Inside a hot plasma those methods are not applicable, since they may lead to a disruption of the discharge.